The Donkey and the Boat - Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180 (Hardcover)

A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and archaeological sources to give a detailed account of both individual economies, and their relationships with each other. Chris Wickham offers a new account of the Mediterranean economy in the tenth to twelfth centuries, based on a completely new look at the sources, documentary and archaeological. Our knowledge of the Mediterranean economy is based on syntheses which are between 50 and 150 years old; they are based on outdated assumptions and restricted data sets, and were written before there was any usable archaeology; and Wickham contends that they have to be properly rethought. This is the first book ever to give a fully detailed comparative account of the regions of the Mediterranean in this period, in their internal economies and in their relationships with each other. It focusses on Egypt, Tunisia, Sicily, the Byzantine empire, Islamic Spain and Portugal, and north-central Italy, and gives the first comprehensive account of the changing economies of each; only Byzantium has a good prior synthesis. It aims to force our rethinking of how economies worked in the medieval Mediterranean. It also offers a rethinking of how we should understand the underlying logic of the medieval economy in general.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2023
Authors:	Chris Wickham (Chichele Professor of medieval history emeritus)
Dimensions:	240 x 165 x 50mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	848
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-885648-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-19-885648-2
Barcode:	9780198856481

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