This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renaissance.
This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renaissance.
Alex M. Feldman is the chair of the department of languages and literature at CIS-Endicott International University of Madrid. He received a BA from Roger Williams University of Rhode Island and received an MRes and PhD from the University of Birmingham. He has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of London's Warburg Institute and has taught at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey, the State University of New York, Rockland and the University of Birmingham.
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Prologue: A zero-sum world Pronoia: Orthodox feudalism? Mercantilism 101 What was the "Byzantine Commonwealth"? Byzantium: nation-state or civilization-state? Did Byzantium generate a "commonwealth"? How should the cumene be interpreted? The cumene Chapter 1: The Byzantine Commonwealth unfolds Byzantium and the baptism of Vladimir, 986-989 - the problems of the sources The evidence of Cherson's involvement in the Phokas rebellion, 987-989 A reassemblage of the revisionist hypothesis, 987-989 Chapter 2 The Rus'ian metropolitanate: "proto-state" or exarchate? Beyond Commonwealth Byzantine Western exarchates of the 6th-8th centuries The loyalty of the thema of Bulgaria after 1019 The metropolitanate of Rus'ia reconsidered The Law Chapter 3: From customary law to Christian law The Russkaja Pravda (11th-12th centuries) Byzantine legal influences in the expanded Russkaja Pravda The adoption of the Zakon Sudnyj Ljudem (9th-12th centuries) From the Zakon Sudnyj Ljudem to the Korm¿aja Kniga Chapter 4 Overlapping sovereignties: Empire, commonwealth and jurisdiction Orthodox tax, debt and property law to the 13th century Orthodox tax, debt and property law since the 13th century The Coin Chapter 5: The hoarding period: Eastern Europe, 11th-14th centuries Bullion, deniers and debasement Barter, debt and law Imagined borders Chapter 6: Sovereignty and bullion: 13-17th centuries Coins of the Romanía dynasties Coins of the cumene dynasties Epilogue: Cycles of Divergence and convergence Misconceptions of feudalism and mercantilism The misconception that Roman laws and feudal laws have been different The misconception that feudalism has been exclusive to Latin Christendom The misconception that feudalism and mercantilism have been mutually exclusive economic systems The contested inheritance of Byzantium's political economy and rhetoric Orthodox ecumenism Rex Catholicissimus, the Spains and "The Powerful Mr. Money" Pravoslavie, the Russias and "The Artery of War - Money" The Great Divergence? Ecumenical sovereignty and the national idea Liberal interpretations of zero-sum economic history Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index
Prologue: A zero-sum world Pronoia: Orthodox feudalism? Mercantilism 101 What was the "Byzantine Commonwealth"? Byzantium: nation-state or civilization-state? Did Byzantium generate a "commonwealth"? How should the cumene be interpreted? The cumene Chapter 1: The Byzantine Commonwealth unfolds Byzantium and the baptism of Vladimir, 986-989 - the problems of the sources The evidence of Cherson's involvement in the Phokas rebellion, 987-989 A reassemblage of the revisionist hypothesis, 987-989 Chapter 2 The Rus'ian metropolitanate: "proto-state" or exarchate? Beyond Commonwealth Byzantine Western exarchates of the 6th-8th centuries The loyalty of the thema of Bulgaria after 1019 The metropolitanate of Rus'ia reconsidered The Law Chapter 3: From customary law to Christian law The Russkaja Pravda (11th-12th centuries) Byzantine legal influences in the expanded Russkaja Pravda The adoption of the Zakon Sudnyj Ljudem (9th-12th centuries) From the Zakon Sudnyj Ljudem to the Korm¿aja Kniga Chapter 4 Overlapping sovereignties: Empire, commonwealth and jurisdiction Orthodox tax, debt and property law to the 13th century Orthodox tax, debt and property law since the 13th century The Coin Chapter 5: The hoarding period: Eastern Europe, 11th-14th centuries Bullion, deniers and debasement Barter, debt and law Imagined borders Chapter 6: Sovereignty and bullion: 13-17th centuries Coins of the Romanía dynasties Coins of the cumene dynasties Epilogue: Cycles of Divergence and convergence Misconceptions of feudalism and mercantilism The misconception that Roman laws and feudal laws have been different The misconception that feudalism has been exclusive to Latin Christendom The misconception that feudalism and mercantilism have been mutually exclusive economic systems The contested inheritance of Byzantium's political economy and rhetoric Orthodox ecumenism Rex Catholicissimus, the Spains and "The Powerful Mr. Money" Pravoslavie, the Russias and "The Artery of War - Money" The Great Divergence? Ecumenical sovereignty and the national idea Liberal interpretations of zero-sum economic history Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index
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