Byzantine Trade 4th 12th Centuries

Author : Marlia Mundell Mango
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351953771

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Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries by Marlia Mundell Mango Pdf

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.

Author : Tom Green
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Byzantine Empire
ISBN : 9781445219592

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From Rome to Byzantium: Trade and Continuity in the First Millennium AD by Tom Green Pdf

This book comprises three closely related studies, namely 'The Nature of Trade in the Roman Mediterranean,c. 200 BC'AD 600'; 'Decline and Recovery: Byzantine Trade, c. 600'1150'; and 'Urban Change and Continuity in Roman and Byzantine Corinth'. In addition, a translation of the 'Rhodian Sea-Law', an important text for maritime trading history, is included as an appendix. 'From Rome to Byzantium' provides a detailed overview of trading activity in the Roman and Byzantine Mediterranean, grounded in recent archaeological research. In particular, it is argued that an element of 'free trade' played a significant role in the direction and nature of trading in Classical and Late Antiquity. It is also suggested that the so-called 'Dark Ages' of the seventh and eighth centuries saw more continuity in terms of both commercial activity and urban life than is sometimes admitted.

Author : Piotr Pranke,Milos Žečević
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004431645

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Medieval Trade in Central Europe, Scandinavia, and the Balkans (10th-12th Centuries) by Piotr Pranke,Milos Žečević Pdf

The aim of this work is to attempt to verify the theoretical concepts associated with the idea of trade and merchants activities in the 10th - 12th century within the extensive body of written sources available. The main case study is trading within the range of the influence of the Ottonian Empire and Byzantium.

Author : Mychajlo Ivanovyč Gladkych
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9668766296

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1000 rokiv vizantijsʹkoï torhivli : (V - XV stolittja) ; zbirka naukovych pracʹ by Mychajlo Ivanovyč Gladkych Pdf

Author : Tamar Hodos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 995 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315448992

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The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization by Tamar Hodos Pdf

This unique collection applies globalization concepts to the discipline of archaeology, using a wide range of global case studies from a group of international specialists. The volume spans from as early as 10,000 cal. BP to the modern era, analysing the relationship between material culture, complex connectivities between communities and groups, and cultural change. Each contributor considers globalization ideas explicitly to explore the socio-cultural connectivities of the past. In considering social practices shared between different historic groups, and also the expression of their respective identities, the papers in this volume illustrate the potential of globalization thinking to bridge the local and global in material culture analysis. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization is the first such volume to take a world archaeology approach, on a multi-period basis, in order to bring together the scope of evidence for the significance of material culture in the processes of globalization. This work thus also provides a means to understand how material culture can be used to assess the impact of global engagement in our contemporary world. As such, it will appeal to archaeologists and historians as well as social science researchers interested in the origins of globalization.

Author : Ioannis Motsianos,Karen S. Garnett
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789692174

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Glass, Wax and Metal: Lighting Technologies in Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval Times by Ioannis Motsianos,Karen S. Garnett Pdf

This volume provides an extensive look at the technological development of lighting and lighting devices during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Western Europe and Byzantium. 29 papers are gathered from two International Lychnological Association (ILA) Round Tables held in Olten, Switzerland (2007) and Thessaloniki, Greece (2011).

Author : Robert Bonfil
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1059 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004203556

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Jews in Byzantium by Robert Bonfil Pdf

Byzantine Jews: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures is the collective product of a three year research group convened under the auspices of Scholion: Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The volume provides both a survey and an analysis of the social and cultural history of Byzantine Jewry from its inception until the fifteenth century, within the wider context of the Byzantine world.

Author : Aleksandr Petrovich Kazhdan,Ann Wharton Epstein,Annabel Jane Wharton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520051297

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Change in Byzantine Culture in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by Aleksandr Petrovich Kazhdan,Ann Wharton Epstein,Annabel Jane Wharton Pdf

Byzantium, that dark sphere on the periphery of medieval Europe, is commonly regarded as the immutable residue of Rome's decline. In this highly original and provocative work, Alexander Kazhdan and Ann Wharton Epstein revise this traditional image by documenting the dynamic social changes that occurred during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Author : Maximilian C. G. Lau,Lau
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198888673

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Emperor John II Komnenos by Maximilian C. G. Lau,Lau Pdf

John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving the empire in the face of civil wars and invasions. A hostage to crusaders as a child, married to a Hungarian princess as a teenager to win his father an alliance, and leading his own campaigns when his father died, it was left to John to try and rebuild the empire all but lost in the eleventh century. This book, the first English language study on John and his era, re-evaluates an emperor traditionally overlooked in favour of his father, hero of the Alexiad written by John's sister Anna, and of his son Manuel, acclaimed for reigning at the height of Komnenian power. John's reign is one of contradictions, as his capital of New Rome/Constantinople was to fall to the armies of the Fourth Crusade just over sixty years after he died, and yet his descendants led vibrant successor states based in the lands that John reconquered. His reign lacks a dominant textual source, and so this history is related as much through personal letters, court literature, archaeology, and foreign accounts as through traditional historical narratives. This study includes extensive study of the landscapes, castles, and cities John built and campaigned through, and provides a guide to the world in which John lived. It covers the empire's neighbours and rivals, the turning points of ecclesiastical history, the shaping of the crusader movement, and the workings of Byzantine government and administration.

Author : Archibald Dunn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000929478

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Byzantine Greece: Microcosm of Empire? by Archibald Dunn Pdf

This volume offers a structured presentation of the progress of research into the internal history of a part of the Byzantine world – Greece – in the centuries before the multiple changes induced or accelerated by the Fourth Crusade. Greece is a large area (several Early andMiddle Byzantine provinces), with records, archival, literary, archaeological, architectural, and art-historical, most of which are unequalled in terms of their density and range. This creates opportunities for useful synthesis, and for dialogue with those now engaged in the rewriting, or writing, of the inner history of Byzantium, from Italy to the Caucasus, who have been stimulated by, or involved in, the editing of archives and inscriptions (including sigillographic), and in the publication of monuments, excavations, and surveys (for all of which the ‘Greek space’, the elladikê khôra, is a particular, and fertile, focus of activity, as the conference showed). Much of the material presented here can usually only be found in specialised publication, and indeed much in Greek alone. But, properly contextualised, this material about the ‘Greek space’ deserves to be brought into the dialogues or debates at the heart of Byzantine Studies, for instance about the Late Antique ‘boom’, urban life, the ‘Dark Age’, economic change, the nature of the ‘Byzantine revival’, and of social, socio-economic, and ethnic groups. The studies here synthesise such research, enabling the ‘Greek space’ as a case study in the evolution of a significant region to the west of Constantinople, to take its place more fully as a point of reference in such dialogues or debates. Equally, it provides frameworks for archaeologists dealing with Greece from Late Antiquity onwards – and there are now many – with which to engage, and it makes available a rich source of comparative material for those studying the other regions of the Byzantine world, whether historically or archaeologically, in Southeastern Europe, Italy, or Turkey.

Author : Magdalena Skoblar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108840705

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Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic by Magdalena Skoblar Pdf

Innovative study re-positioning the Adriatic as a liminal region between different cultures and faiths before the heyday of Venice.

Author : James Francis LePree Ph.D.,Ljudmila Djukic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216057369

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The Byzantine Empire [2 volumes] by James Francis LePree Ph.D.,Ljudmila Djukic Pdf

An indispensable resource for investigating the history of the Byzantine Empire, this book provides a comprehensive summary of its overall development as well as its legacy in the modern world. The existence and development of Byzantium covers more than a millennium and coincides with one of the darkest periods of European history. Unfortunately, the Empire's achievements and brightest moments remain largely unknown except to Byzantine scholars. Through reference entries and primary source documents, this encyclopedia provides essential information about the Byzantine Empire from the reign of Diocletian to the Fall of Constantinople. The reference entries are grouped in eight topical sections on the most significant aspects of the history of the Byzantine Empire. These sections include individuals, key events, key places, the military, objects and artifacts, administration and organization, government and politics, and groups and organizations. Each section begins with an overview essay and contains approximately thirty entries on carefully selected topics. The entries conclude with suggestions for further reading along with cross-references., A selection of primary source documents gives readers first-hand accounts of the Byzantine world.

Author : Carlos Cabrera Tejedor
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789690590

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From Hispalis to Ishbiliyya: The Ancient Port of Seville, from the Roman Empire to the End of the Islamic Period (45 BC - AD 1248) by Carlos Cabrera Tejedor Pdf

This monograph focuses on the history and development of the topography, layout, and facilities of the ancient port of Seville, located in the lower Guadalquivir River Basin, between the 1st century BC and the 13th century AD. Until now, despite its commercial importance, little has been known about the port’s exact position, layout and facilities.

Author : Liz James,Antony Eastmond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351871099

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Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art by Liz James,Antony Eastmond Pdf

The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex exhibitions ever mounted at the Royal Academy, as well as one of the most popular, and the overall aim of the book is to reflect on the exhibition of Byzantine art, both as an academic and popular exercise, and through the choice and discussion of individual objects. Exhibitions present a very different picture of Byzantium and its culture from works of history. The choices of object for display, their arrangement, and the underlying aims of exhibition curators and designers mean that every exhibition presents a different picture of Byzantium. Particular emphases can be placed, whether on everyday life or high court culture; Constantinople or the provinces; or claims of continuity or change over the Byzantine millennium. The essays explore aspects of the image of Byzantium that results from these choices. Given the enormous popularity of exhibitions of Byzantine objects (continued after the completion of this volume by exhibitions in Paris, Bonn and Istanbul), art has become one of the most popular and accessible means of popularizing Byzantium to a wide public audience. Hitherto there has been no general consideration of either the historiography of Byzantine exhibitions or the ways in which they have been set up to present different aspects of Byzantine culture to an academic and general public. The essays are divided into 3 sections: Exhibiting Byzantium sets the 2009 exhibition into the context of other exhibitions of Byzantine art and considers the issues involved in curating and viewing such major collections of medieval art; Object Lessons offers a set of studies of individual objects that were in the exhibition; Byzantium through its Art moves to consider Byzantine art more widely, thinking about the different ways in which objects can be used to study Byzantine culture and society. These are preceded by an introduction by the editors which sets the volume in context.

Author : Pamela Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351956567

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Authority in Byzantium by Pamela Armstrong Pdf

Authority is an important concept in Byzantine culture whose myriad modes of implementation helped maintain the existence of the Byzantine state across so many centuries, binding together people from different ethnic groups, in different spheres of life and activities. Even though its significance to understanding the Byzantine world is so central, it is nonetheless imperfectly understood. The present volume brings together an international cast of scholars to explore this concept. The contributions are divided into nine sections focusing on different aspects of authority: the imperial authority of the state, how it was transmitted from the top down, from Constantinople to provincial towns, how it dealt with marginal legal issues or good medical practice; authority in the market place, whether directly concerning over-the-counter issues such as coinage, weights and measures, or the wider concerns of the activities of foreign traders; authority in the church, such as the extent to which ecclesiastical authority was inherent, or how constructs of religious authority ordered family life; the authority of knowledge revealed through imperial patronage or divine wisdom; the authority of text, though its conformity with ancient traditions, through the Holy scriptures and through the authenticity of history; exhibiting authority through images of the emperor or the Divine. The final section draws on personal experience of three great ’authorities’ within Byzantine Studies: Ostrogorsky, Beck and Browning.