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The 28 papers examine questions relating to the extent and nature of Byzantine trade from Late Antiquity into the Middle Ages. The Byzantine state was the only political entity of the Mediterranean to survive Antiquity and thus offers a theoretical standard against which to measure diachronic and regional changes in trading practices within the area and beyond. To complement previous extensive work on late antique long-distance trade within the Mediterranean (based on the grain supply, amphorae and fine ware circulation), the papers concentrate on local and international trade.The emphasis is on recently uncovered or studied archaeological evidence relating to key topics. These include local retail organisation within the city, some regional markets within the empire, the production and/or circulation patterns of particular goods (metalware, ivory and bone, glass, pottery), and objects of international trade, both exports such as wine and glass, imports such as materia medica, and the lack of importation of, for example, Sasanian pottery. In particular, new work relating to specific regions of Byzantium's international trade is highlighted: in Britain, the Levant, the Red Sea, the Black Sea and China.It includes papers of the 38th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in 2004 at Oxford under the auspices of the Committee for Byzantine Studies.
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E TRADE, 4TH- 12TH CENTURIES Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies Publications 14 ZANTINE TRADE, 4TH-12TH CENTURIES THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LOCAL, REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE Papers of the Thirty-eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St John's College, University of Oxford, March 2004 edited by Marlia MLmdell Mango ASHGATE © Marlia Mundell Mango 2009 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Marlia Mundell Mango has asserted her moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editor of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Wey Court East Union Road Farnham Surrey, GU9 7PT England Ashgate Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington VT 05401-4405 USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (38th : 2004: St John's College, University of Oxford) Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries: The Archaeology of Local, Regional and International Exchange: Papers of the Thirty-eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St John's College, University of Oxford, March 2004. - (Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies ; v. 14) 1. Byzantine Empire - Commerce - Congresses. I. Title II. Mango, Marlia Mundell. III. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. 382'.09495 Library of Congress Cataloging in-Publication Data Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies (08th: 2004: St. John's College, University of Oxford) Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries: The Archaeology of Local, Regional and International Exchange: Papers of the Thirty-eighth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, St John's College, University of Oxford, March 2004 / [edited by] Marlia Mundell Mango. p. cm. - (Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies; 14) Includes index. 1. Byzantine Empire - Commerce - Congresses. I. Mango, Marlia Mundell. II. Title. HF405.S67 2004 2008035555 382.09495-dc22 ISBN 978-0-7546-6310-2 SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BYZANTINE STUDIES - PUBLICATION 14 Mixed Sources Product group from well-managed forests and alher contra Ileit sources