Markets in early medieval Europe : trading and productive sites, 650-850 / edited by Tim Pestell and Katharina Ulmschneider.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pestell, Tim.

Ulmschneider, Katharina

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Markets--Europe--History.

Markets.

History.

Europe--Economic conditions--To 1492.

Europe.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

304. : illustrations ; 25cm

Place of Publication:

Macclesfield : Windgather, 2003.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Early Medieval Markets and 'Productive' Sites / Katharina Ulmschneider, Tim Pestell 1

I History, Numismatics and the Early Medieval Economy

2 Production and Distribution in Early and Middle Anglo-Saxon England / James Campbell 12

3 'Productive' Sites and the Pattern of Coin Loss in England, 600-1180 / Mark Blackburn 20

4 Variations in the Composition of the Currency at Different Places in England / Michael Metcalf 37

5 The Hinterlands of Three Southern English Emporia: Some Common Themes / Ben Palmer 48

II Trading and 'Productive' Sites in the British Isles

6 Markets and 'Productive' Sites: A View from Western Britain / David Griffiths 62

7 Markets Around the Solent: Unravelling a 'Productive' Site on the Isle of Wight / Katharina Ulmschneider 73

8 The Early Anglo-Saxon Framework for Middle Anglo-Saxon Economics: The Case of East Kent / Stuart Brookes 84

9 Exceptional Finds, Exceptional Sites? Barham and Coddenham, Suffolk / John Newman 97

10 Six Middle Anglo-Saxon Sites in West Norfolk / Andrew Rogerson 110

11 The Afterlife of 'Productive' Sites in East Anglia / Tim Pestell 122

12 Middle Anglo-Saxon Lincolnshire: An Emerging Picture / Kevin Leahy 138

13 The Anglian and Anglo-Scandinavian Sites at Cottam, East Yorkshire / Julian D. Richards 155

III Markets and Settlements on the Early Medieval Continent

14 Markets and Fairs in Norway and Sweden Between the Eighth and Sixteenth Centuries / Peter Sawyer 168

15 Manor and Market at Lake Tisso in the Sixth to Eleventh Centuries: The Danish 'Productive' Sites / Lars Jorgensen 175

16 Gross Stromkendorf: A Market Site of the Eighth Century on the Baltic Sea Coast / Astrid Tummuscheit 208

17 Tjitsma, Wijnaldum: An Early Medieval Production Site in the Netherlands / Caroline Tulp 221

18 The Fate of the Ports of the Lower Seine Valley at the End of the Ninth Century / Jacques Le Maho 234

19 San Vincenzo in the Making: The Discovery of an Early Medieval Production Site on the East Bank of the Volturno / Matthew Moran 249.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

0953863077 :

OCLC:

50840936