“Tribal” societies and the rise of early medieval trade: archaeological evidence from Polish territories (eighth-tenth centuries)

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents XVII
3. Chapter I. The Franks, Italy and Spain.
4. Early European towns. The development of the economy in the Frankish realm between dynamism and deceleration AD 500-1100 3
5. Where do trading towns come from? Early medieval Venice and the northern emporia 41
6. Provenancing Merovingian garnets by PIXE and μ-Raman spectrometry 69
7. Flourishing places in North-Eastern Italy: towns and emporia between late antiquity and the Carolingian age 77
8. Rome in the ninth century: the economic system 105
9. Production and circulation of silver and secondary products (lead and glass) from Frankish royal silver mines at Melle (eighth to tenth century) 123
10. The hinterlands of early medieval towns: the transformation of the countryside in Tuscany 135
11. Where is the eighth century in the towns of the Meuse valley? 153
12. Towns and rivers, river towns: environmental archaeology and the archaeological evaluation of urban activities and trade 165
13. The royal foundation of Recópolis and the urban renewal in Iberia during the second half of the sixth century 181
14. Chapter II. Emporia ot the North and the Carolingian East
15. Recent archaeological research in Haithabu 199
16. Agrarian production and the emporia of mid Saxon England, ca. AD 650-850 219
17. Urbanisation in Northern and Eastern Europe, ca. AD 700-1100 233
18. Urban archaeology in Magdeburg: results and prospects 271
19. Micromorphology and post-Roman town research: the examples of London and Magdeburg 303
20. Karlburg am Main (Bavaria) and its role as a local centre in the late Merovingian and Ottonian periods 319
21. Some remarks on the topography of Franconofurd 341
22. Marburg Castle: the cradle of the province Hesse, from Carolingian to Ottonian times 353
23. Das karolingerzeitliche Kloster Fulda – ein „monasterium in solitudine”. Seine Strukturen und Handwerksproduktion nach den seit 1898 gewonnenen archäologischen Daten 367
24. New findings of the excavations in Mosaburg/Zalavár (Western Hungary) 411
25. Chapter III. Eatern Central Europe
26. “Tribal” societies and the rise of early medieval trade: archaeological evidence from Polish territories (eighth-tenth centuries) 431
27. Counted and weighed silver: the fragmentation of coins in early medieval East Central Europe 451
28. Early medieval centre in Pohansko near Břeclav/Lundeburg: munitio, emporium or palatium of the rulers of Moravia? 473
29. Ninth-century Mikulčice: the “market of the Moravians”? The archaeological evidence of trade in Great Moravia 499
30. Ein frühmittelalterliches Grubenhaus von Bielovce (Slowakei): Befund und Rekonstruktion 525
31. On “Orient-preference” in archaeological research on the Avars, proto-Bulgarians and conquering Hungarians 545
32. Backmatter 563