Mundell Mango M.
Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries
The Archaeology of Local, Regional and International Exchange. Papers of the Thirty-eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. St. John's College, Unversity of Oxford, March 2004
A cura di Mundell Mango M. - Ashgate, Furnham-Burlington 2009
pp. XXXI-510
The 28 papers examine questions relating to the extent and nature of
Byzantine trade from Late Antiquity into the Middle Ages. The Byzantine
state was the only political entity of the Mediterranean to survive
Antiquity and thus offers a theoretical standard against which to
measure diachronic and regional changes in trading practices within the
area and beyond. To complement previous extensive work on late antique
long-distance trade within the Mediterranean (based on the grain supply,
amphorae and fine ware circulation), the papers concentrate on local
and international trade.
The emphasis is on recently uncovered or studied archaeological
evidence relating to key topics. These include local retail organisation
within the city, some regional markets within the empire, the
production and/or circulation patterns of particular goods (metalware,
ivory and bone, glass, pottery), and objects of international trade,
both exports such as wine and glass, imports such as materia medica, and
the lack of importation of, for example, Sasanian pottery. In
particular, new work relating to specific regions of Byzantium's
international trade is highlighted: in Britain, the Levant, the Red Sea,
the Black Sea and China.
Papers of the 38th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in
2004 at Oxford under the auspices of the Committee for Byzantine
Studies.
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