A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th
centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to
medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and
archaeological sources to give a detailed account of both individual
economies, and their relationships with each other. Chris Wickham
offers a new account of the Mediterranean economy in the tenth to
twelfth centuries, based on a completely new look at the sources,
documentary and archaeological. Our knowledge of the Mediterranean
economy is based on syntheses which are between 50 and 150 years old;
they are based on outdated assumptions and restricted data sets, and
were written before there was any usable archaeology; and Wickham
contends that they have to be properly rethought. This is the first
book ever to give a fully detailed comparative account of the regions
of the Mediterranean in this period, in their internal economies and
in their relationships with each other. It focusses on Egypt, Tunisia,
Sicily, the Byzantine empire, Islamic Spain and Portugal, and
north-central Italy, and gives the first comprehensive account of the
changing economies of each; only Byzantium has a good prior synthesis.
It aims to force our rethinking of how economies worked in the
medieval Mediterranean. It also offers a rethinking of how we should
understand the underlying logic of the medieval economy in general.
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ISBN
9780192598493
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Vendor
OUP Oxford
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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