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 confer...

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