Medieval trade in Central Europe, Scandinavia, and the Balkans (10th-12th centuries) : : a comparative study / / Piotr Pranke, Milos Žečević ; translated by Michał Romanek.

In the historiography of trade in the Middle Ages, there is a wide current of theoretical consideration referring to the ways contemporaries perceived trade. The present work pays specific attention to how trade functioned within the range of the influence of the Ottonian Empire and Byzantium, from...

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Superior document:East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; Volume 64
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; Volume 64.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Theories of Socioeconomic Impact: From Immanuel Wallerstein’s ‘World Systems’ to Kondratiev/Schumpeter Waves
  • 1.1 World Systems Analysis: From Business Cycles to Ancient World Theory
  • 1.2 Central Place Theory, Gateway Cities, Break-In Transportation Theory: an Outline
  • 1.3 Substantivism and Formalism: a Dispute over the Importance of Economic Phenomena in the Past
  • 2 Trade in the Period from the 10th to the 12th Centuries: Merchants during the Early and High Middle Ages
  • 2.1 Who Are the Merchants?
  • 2.2 Those Who Come and Go: the Idea of an Itinerant Market
  • 2.3 Fair Trading
  • 2.4 The Customs Duty System: Just and Fair Duty
  • 3 The Scandinavian Peninsula and the Balkan Peninsula: a Comparative Analysis
  • 3.1 Scandinavian Economic Penetration in the Light of Sources of North European Provenance
  • 3.2 Scandinavian Economic Penetration in the Light of Oriental Sources
  • 3.3 Trade on the Balkan Peninsula Territory
  • 3.4 Production and Dependent Population: an Example of the Balkan Peninsula
  • 4 Goods That Were Exchanged in Trade
  • Appendix: A Source Study: High Medieval Market Institutions—“ut nullus teloneum exigat nisi in mercatibus ubi communia commertia emuntur ac venundantur”
  • List of Customs Privileges in Post-Carolingian Europe (10th–12th Century)
  • List of Mint Privileges in the Post-Carolingian Europe (10th–12th Century)
  • List of Market Privileges for the Post-Carolingian Europe (10th–12th Century)
  • Trade Privileges in the Balkans
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.