Book contents
- Frontmatter
- General Introduction
- Part I The Earlier Empire c. 500–c. 700
- Part II The Middle Empire c. 700–1204
- 5 State of Emergency (700–850)
- 6 After Iconoclasm (850–886)
- 7 Religious Missions
- 8 Armenian Neighbours (600–1045)
- 9 Confronting Islam: Emperors Versus Caliphs (641–c. 850)
- 10 Western Approaches (700–900)
- 11 Byzantine Italy (680–876)
- 12 The Middle Byzantine Economy (600–1204)
- 13 Equilibrium to Expansion (886–1025)
- 14 Western Approaches (900–1025)
- 15 Byzantium and Southern Italy (876–1000)
- 16 Belle Époque or Crisis? (1025–1118)
- 17 The Empire of the Komnenoi (1118–1204)
- 18 Balkan Borderlands (1018–1204)
- 19 Raiders and Neighbours: The Turks (1040–1304)
- Part III The Byzantine Lands in the Later Middle Ages 1204–1492
- Glossary (Including some Proper Names)
- Genealogical Tables and Lists of Rulers
- List of alternative place names
- Bibliography
- Picture Acknowledgements
- Index
- References
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- General Introduction
- Part I The Earlier Empire c. 500–c. 700
- Part II The Middle Empire c. 700–1204
- 5 State of Emergency (700–850)
- 6 After Iconoclasm (850–886)
- 7 Religious Missions
- 8 Armenian Neighbours (600–1045)
- 9 Confronting Islam: Emperors Versus Caliphs (641–c. 850)
- 10 Western Approaches (700–900)
- 11 Byzantine Italy (680–876)
- 12 The Middle Byzantine Economy (600–1204)
- 13 Equilibrium to Expansion (886–1025)
- 14 Western Approaches (900–1025)
- 15 Byzantium and Southern Italy (876–1000)
- 16 Belle Époque or Crisis? (1025–1118)
- 17 The Empire of the Komnenoi (1118–1204)
- 18 Balkan Borderlands (1018–1204)
- 19 Raiders and Neighbours: The Turks (1040–1304)
- Part III The Byzantine Lands in the Later Middle Ages 1204–1492
- Glossary (Including some Proper Names)
- Genealogical Tables and Lists of Rulers
- List of alternative place names
- Bibliography
- Picture Acknowledgements
- Index
- References
Summary
introduction
The Byzantine economy is an important subject on a number of grounds. It is arguably the key to the history of the Byzantine state, society and culture; it forms part of the picture of a transition from the ancient world to the middle ages – and part of the debate as to whether those are meaningful concepts at all; it is a test case for whether we should be talking about particular regional economies, such as the ‘Byzantine economy’, or whether we should instead be thinking in terms of a general pre-modern Mediterranean economy, of which the economic activities of the Byzantine world were merely a part. It is a subject, too, upon which there was once considerable agreement among scholars, but there is now some uncertainty. The recent publication of The economic history of Byzantium, a substantial multi-authored work in three volumes, has been a major achievement and it serves as an important reference work and body of data; it does not represent an end to debate.
the byzantine economy: late antiquity to 1204
All that said, there are considerable areas of scholarly agreement and it is the aim of this section to set these out. It is also worth saying that the volume and quality of evidence available has improved markedly, particularly since the 1980s. The study of Byzantine coins, the excavation of Byzantine sites, including underwater archaeology, the study of pottery types and the publication of texts and associated linguistic studies have all made great advances.
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