Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean economy / Joshua Holo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holo, Joshua, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Byzantine Empire--Economic conditions.

Jews.

Jews--Byzantine Empire--History.

Byzantine Empire--Economic conditions.

Byzantine Empire.

Byzantine Empire--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 285 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using primary sources, Joshua Holo uncovers the day-to-day workings of the Byzantine-Jewish economy in the middle Byzantine period. Built on a web of exchange systems both exclusive to the Jewish community and integrated in society at large, this economy forces a revision of Jewish history in the region. Paradoxically, the two distinct economic orientations, inward and outward, simultaneously advanced both the integration of the Jews into the larger Byzantine economy and their segregation as a self-contained body economic. Dr Holo finds that the Jews routinely leveraged their internal, even exclusive, systems of law and culture to break into - occasionally to dominate - Byzantine markets. In doing so, they challenge our concept of Diaspora life as a balance between the two competing impulses of integration and segregation. The success of this enterprise, furthermore, qualifies the prevailing claim of Jewish economic decline during the Commercial Revolution.

Contents:

Byzantine-Jewish economic history

Byzantine Jews throughout the Mediterranean : fluidity and exchange

The inner economy of the Jewish communities

The integrated Jewish economy

Byzantine-Jewish trade and the commercial revolution

Conclusion : a new perspective on Byzantine economic history.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-74508-3

1-107-20995-1

0-511-84971-0

1-282-65137-4

9786612651373

0-511-68951-9

0-511-69211-0

0-511-69099-1

0-511-69025-8

0-511-68876-8

OCLC:

645092813