Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries: The Archaeology of Local, Regional and International Exchange. Papers of the Thirty-Eighth Spring Symposium of By

ISBN-13: 9780754663102 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 512 str.

Mango, Marlia Mundell

Opis

Examines questions relating to the extent and nature of Byzantine trade from Late Antiquity into the Middle Ages. This title includes papers of the 38th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in 2004 at Oxford under the auspices of the Committee for B

Recenzje

’... this volume will remain for a long time to come the best assessment of present knowledge on early and mid-Byzantine trade. ... The symposiarch should be congratulated for impeccable editing, a rare feat when dealing with a multilingual bibliography and of course for such a comprehensive collection of papers.’ The Medieval Review

Spis treści

Contents: Section I Mapping Trade: Byzantine trade: local, regional, interregional, and international, Marlia Mundell Mango; Maps and trade, Emilie Savage-Smith; Mapping trade by shipwrecks, Sean Kingsley; Mapping trade by the amphora, Olga Karagiorgou. Section II Local Trade and Production: Shops and Workshops: Trade, workshops and shops in Bet Shean/Scythopolis, 4th-8th centuries, Yoram Tsafrir; Ivory, bone, glass and other production at Alexandria, 5th-9th centuries, Elizabeth Rodziewicz; Polychrome ceramics in Preslav, 9th to 11th centuries: where were they produced and used?, Rossina Kostova. Section III Regional Markets: Brittle ware trade in Syria between the 5th and 8th centuries, Agnès Vokaer; Local painted pottery trade in early Byzantine Isauria, Mark P.C. Jackson; Ganos wine and its circulation in the 11th century, Nergis Günsenin. Section IV Product Tracking: Pottery, Glass, and Metal Fine Wares: Trade in the East Mediterranean in the 8th century, Pamela Armstrong; Trade of Byzantine red wares, end of the 11th-13th centuries, Ioanna Dimopoulos; Evaluating the movement of open-work glassware in late antiquity, Hallie Meredith; Distribution patterns of Middle Byzantine painted glass, Natalija Ristovska; Tracking Byzantine silver and copper metalware, 4th-12th centuries, Marlia Mundell Mango. Section V International Trade: Exports and Imports: Export wine trade to West and East, Michael Decker; Foreign glass excavated in China from the 4th to 12th centuries, Hiromi Kinoshita; On the Silk Route: imported and regional pottery at Zeugma, Philip M. Kenrick; Imported materia medica, 4th-12th centuries, and Byzantine pharmacology, Anne McCabe. Section VI Internation Trade: to West, South, East and North: West and North: Byzantine trade to the edge of the world: Mediterranean pottery imports to Atlantic Britain in the 6th century, Ewan Campbell and Christopher Bowles; Early tin extraction in the south-west of England: a resource for Mediterranean meta

O autorze

Marlia Mundell Mango is University Lecturer in Byzantine Archaeology and Art, and Fellow of St John's College, University of Oxford, UK