Post-Roman towns, trade and settlement in Europe and Byzantium. / Vol. 1, : The heirs of the Roman west / / edited by Joachim Henning.

• Superior document: Millennium-Studien, Bd. 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Henning, Joachim.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, New York : : W. de Gruyter,, 2007.; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Millennium-Studien ; Bd. 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 569, 24 pages) :; illustrations, maps

In this collection leading international authorities analyse the structures and economic functions of non-agrarian centres between ca. 500 and 1000 A.D. - their trade, their surrounding settlements, and the agricultural and cultural milieux. The thirty-one papers presented at an international conference held in Bad Homburg focus on recent archaeological discoveries in Central Europe (Vol.1), as well as onthose from southeastern Europe to Asia Minor (Vol. 2).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter I. The Franks, Italy and Spain. -- Early European towns. The development of the economy in the Frankish realm between dynamism and deceleration AD 500-1100 -- Where do trading towns come from? Early medieval Venice and the northern emporia -- Provenancing Merovingian garnets by PIXE and μ-Raman spectrometry -- Flourishing places in North-Eastern Italy: towns and emporia between late antiquity and the Carolingian age -- Rome in the ninth century: the economic system -- Production and circulation of silver and secondary products (lead and glass) from Frankish royal silver mines at Melle (eighth to tenth century) -- The hinterlands of early medieval towns: the transformation of the countryside in Tuscany -- Where is the eighth century in the towns of the Meuse valley? -- Towns and rivers, river towns: environmental archaeology and the archaeological evaluation of urban activities and trade -- The royal foundation of Recópolis and the urban renewal in Iberia during the second half of the sixth century -- Chapter II. Emporia ot the North and the Carolingian East -- Recent archaeological research in Haithabu -- Agrarian production and the emporia of mid Saxon England, ca. AD 650-850 -- Urbanisation in Northern and Eastern Europe, ca. AD 700-1100 -- Urban archaeology in Magdeburg: results and prospects -- Micromorphology and post-Roman town research: the examples of London and Magdeburg -- Karlburg am Main (Bavaria) and its role as a local centre in the late Merovingian and Ottonian periods -- Some remarks on the topography of Franconofurd -- Marburg Castle: the cradle of the province Hesse, from Carolingian to Ottonian times -- Das karolingerzeitliche Kloster Fulda - ein "monasterium in solitudine". Seine Strukturen und Handwerksproduktion nach den seit 1898 gewonnenen archäologischen Daten -- New findings of the excavations in Mosaburg/Zalavár (Western Hungary) -- Chapter III. Eatern Central Europe -- "Tribal" societies and the rise of early medieval trade: archaeological evidence from Polish territories (eighth-tenth centuries) -- Counted and weighed silver: the fragmentation of coins in early medieval East Central Europe -- Early medieval centre in Pohansko near Břeclav/Lundeburg: munitio, emporium or palatium of the rulers of Moravia? -- Ninth-century Mikulčice: the "market of the Moravians"? The archaeological evidence of trade in Great Moravia -- Ein frühmittelalterliches Grubenhaus von Bielovce (Slowakei): Befund und Rekonstruktion -- On "Orient-preference" in archaeological research on the Avars, proto-Bulgarians and conquering Hungarians -- Backmatter