THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF BYZANTIUM
From the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century

Angeliki E. Laiou

Editor-in-Chief

Scholarly Committee

Charalambos Bouras
Cécile Morrisson
Nicolas Oikonomides
Constantine Pitsakis

 

The book is being published in two editions:
a Greek version by MIET in Athens and this English
version by Dumbarton Oaks.

 

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Washington, D.C.

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Volume 1

Preface

Introduction

Angeliki E. Laiou | Writing the Economic History of Byzantium

Angeliki E. Laiou | Political History: An Outline

Part One: The Natural Environment, Resources, Communications, and Production Techniques

Bernard Geyer | Physical Factors in the Evolution of the Landscape and Land Use

Angeliki E. Laiou | The Human Resources

Anna Avramea | Land and Sea Communications, Fourth--Fifteenth Centuries

George Makris | Ships

Anthony Bryer | The Means of Agricultural Production: Muscle and Tools

Klaus-Peter Matschke | Mining

Maria K. Papathanassiou | Metallurgy and Metalworking Techniques

Jean-Pierre Sodini | Marble and Stoneworking in Byzantium, Seventh--Fifteenth Centuries

Anna Muthesius | Essential Processes, Looms, and Technical Aspects of the Production of Silk Textiles

Part Two: The Sixth Century, Background

Cécile Morrisson and Jean-Pierre Sodini | The Sixth-Century Economy

Case Study
James Russell | Anemourion

Part Three: Structures, Organization, and Development of Production

Agriculture
Jacques Lefort | The Rural Economy, Seventh--Twelfth Centuries

Angeliki E. Laiou | The Agrarian Economy, Thirteenth--Fifteenth Centuries

Pierre Toubert | Byzantium and the Mediterranean Agrarian Civilization

Volume 2

Urban Economy
Gilbert Dagron | The Urban Economy, Seventh--Twelfth Centuries

Klaus-Peter Matschke | The Late Byzantine Urban Economy, Thirteenth--Fifteenth Centuries

Charalambos Bouras | Aspects of the Byzantine City, Eighth--Fifteenth Centuries

Paul Magdalino | Medieval Constantinople: Built Environment and Urban Development

Charalambos Bouras | Master Craftsmen, Craftsmen, and Building Activities in Byzantium

Anthony Cutler | The Industries of Art

Nicolas Oikonomides | Writing Materials, Documents, and Books

Véronique François and Jean-Michel Spieser | Pottery and Glass in Byzantium

Christopher Entwistle | Byzantine Weights

Case Studies
Clive Foss and Jane Ayer Scott | Sardis

Klaus Rheidt | The Urban Economy of Pergamon

Aspasia Louvi-Kizi | Thebes

Maria Kazanaki-Lappa | Medieval Athens

G. D. R. Sanders | Corinth

Vasso Penna | Numismatic Circulation in Corinth from 976 to 1204

Anne Bortoli and Michel Kazanski | Kherson and Its Region

Ivan Jordanov | Preslav

Konstantin Dochev | Turnovo, Sixth--Fourteenth Centuries

Part Four: Exchange, Trade, and Markets

Angeliki E. Laiou | Economic and Non-Economic Exchange

Angeliki E. Laiou | Exchange and Trade, Seventh--Twelfth Centuries

Klaus-Peter Matschke | Commerce, Trade, Markets, and Money, Thirteenth--Fifteenth Centuries

John Day | The Levant Trade in the Middle Ages

Cécile Morrisson and Jean-Claude Cheynet | Prices and Wages in the Byzantine World

Special Topics
Haris Kalligas | Monemvasia, Seventh--Fifteenth Centuries

Frederick van Doorninck, Jr. | Byzantine Shipwrecks

 

Volume 3

Part Five: Economic Institutions and the State

Cécile Morrisson | Byzantine Money: Its Production and Circulation

John Day | A Note on Monetary Mechanisms, East and West

Nicolas Oikonomides | The Role of the Byzantine State in the Economy

Legal Aspects of the Economy
Eleutheria Papagianni | Legal Institutions and Practice in Matters of Ecclesiastical Property

Eleutheria Papagianni | Protimesis (Preemption) in Byzantium

Eleutheria Papagianni | Byzantine Legislation on Economic Activity Relative to Social Class

Demetrios Gofas | The Byzantine Law of Interest

Olga Maridaki-Karatza | Legal Aspects of the Financing of Trade

Part Six: General Traits of the Byzantine Economy

Angeliki E. Laiou | Economic Thought and Ideology

Angeliki E. Laiou | The Byzantine Economy: An Overview

List of Abbreviations

Thematic Index

General Index