Author(s): Miloš Zečević; Piotr Pranke; Michał Romanek
Series: Brill's East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 64
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2020
Contents
Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 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”
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
