Michael MccormickOrigins of the European Economy
Communications and Commerce A.D. 300-900
Commerce, communications and the origins of the European economy
Part I. The End of the World: 1. The end of the ancient world
2. Late Roman industry: case studies in decline
3. Land and river communications in late antiquity
4. Sea change in late antiquity
The end of the ancient economy: a provisional balance sheet
Part II. People on the Move
5. A few western faces
6. Two hundred more envoys and pilgrims: group portrait
7. Byzantine faces
8. Easterners heading west: group portrait
9. Traders, slaves, and exiles
People on the move
Part III. Things that Travelled: 10. Hagiographical horizons: collecting exotic relics in early medieval France
11. 'Virtual' coins and communications
12. 'Real money': Arab and Byzantine coins around Carolingian Europe
Things on the move
Part IV. The Patterns of Change: 13. The experience of travel
14. Secular rhythms: communications over time
15. Seasonal rhythms
16. Time under way
17. 'Spaces of sea': Europe's western Mediterranean communications
18. Venetian breakthrough: Europe's central Mediterranean communications
19. New overland routes
The patterns of change
Part V. Commerce: 20. Early medieval trading worlds
21. Where are the merchants?: Italy
22. Merchants and markets of Frankland
23. Connections
24. Where are the wares?: eastern imports to Europe
25. European exports to Africa and Asia
At the origins of the European economy
Appendices
Bibliography.
