The donkey and the boat : reinterpreting the Mediterranean economy, 950-1180 / Chris Wickham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wickham, Chris, 1950- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economía--Historia--0950-1180.

Mediterráneo (Región)--Situación económica--Historia--0950-1180.

Mediterráneo (Región)--Historia--0950-1180.

Mediterranean Region--Economic conditions--To 1500.

Mediterranean Region.

Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Local Subjects:

Economía--Historia--0950-1180.

Mediterráneo (Región)--Situación económica--Historia--0950-1180.

Mediterráneo (Región)--Historia--0950-1180.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (836 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

An 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.

Contents:

Cover

The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Maps

Illustrations of Ceramic Types

List of Abbreviations

Maps

1 Introduction

A Note on Language

2 Egypt

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Urban and Rural Hierarchies

2.3 The Agricultural Economy

2.4 Internal Exchange

2.4.1 Ceramics

2.4.2 Flax and linen

2.4.3 Wider patterns of trading

2.4.4 Internal exchange: concluding comments

2.5 Interregional Exchange

3 North Africa and Sicily

3.1 North Africa as a Historical Problem

3.2 North African Archaeology and the North African Internal Economy

3.3 The geniza and Central Mediterranean Exchange

3.4 Sicily as a Historical Problem

3.5 The Archaeology of Sicily in the Long Eleventh Century

3.6 Norman Sicily: Rural Society and the Web of Production

3.7 The Central Mediterranean Regions into the Twelfth Century

4 Byzantium

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Byzantine Internal Economic Differences

4.2.1 Constantinople and the Marmara

4.2.2 The Aegean Sea

4.2.3 The Anatolian plateau

4.2.4 The northern Balkans

4.2.5 The southern Adriatic and Ionian Seas

4.3 The Archaeology of Byzantine Exchange

4.4 Byzantine Exchange in the Written Record

4.5 The Logic of Byzantine Economic Expansion

4.6 Byzantium and the Mediterranean

5 Islamic Spain and Portugal

5.1 Framings: Politics, Geography, and Sources

5.2 Debates

5.3 The Andalusī Urban Economy

5.4 Andalusī Production and Exchange in the Archaeology and Written Sources

5.4.1 Ceramics

5.4.2 Cloth, metal and other interconnections

5.4.3 The roots of growth

5.5 Islamic Spain and the Mediterranean, 950-1180

6 North-CentralItaly

6.1 Modern Narratives

6.2 A Rural Italy

6.3 Venice and its Hinterland.

6.4 Genoa

6.5 Pisa and Tuscany

6.6 Milan and Lombardy

6.7 Mediterranean Projection and Regional Fragmentation

7 A Brief History of the Mediterranean Economy in the Tenth to Twelfth Centuries

8 The Internal Logic of Feudal Economies

Bibliography

1. Unpublished Sources and Web-BasedSource Databases

2. Published Primary Sources, Including Secondary Works Consulted Principally for the Editions and Translations in them

3. Secondary Works

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2023.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 19, 2023).

ISBN:

9780192598493

019259849X

9780191889752

019188975X

9780192598486

0192598481

OCLC:

1381094438