Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce AD 300 - 900
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the economic transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages in over sixty years. It brings fresh evidence to bear on the fall of the Roman empire and the origins of the medieval economy. The book uses new material from recent excavations, and develops a...
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This is the first comprehensive analysis of the economic transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages in over sixty years. It brings fresh evidence to bear on the fall of the Roman empire and the origins of the medieval economy. The book uses new material from recent excavations, and develops a new method for the study of hundreds of travelers to reconstitute the communications infrastructure that conveyed those travelers--ship sailings, overland routes--linking Europe to Africa and Asia, from the time of the later Roman empire to the reign of Charlemagne and beyond.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780521661027 (0521661021)
Publish date: February 11th 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 1130
Edition language: English
Think a lengthy discursus on the economic changes of the "Dark Ages" can't be interesting? Guess again!
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