Byzantine Trade, 4th-12th Centuries

Marlia Mundell Mango is University Lecturer in Byzantine Archaeology and Art, and Fellow of St John's College, University of Oxford, UK

• Contents: Section I Mapping Trade: Byzantine trade: local, regional, interregional, and international, Marlia Mundell Mango; Maps and trade, Emilie Savage-Smith; Mapping trade by shipwrecks, Sean Kingsley; Mapping trade by the amphora, Olga Karagiorgou. Section II Local Trade and Production: Shops and Workshops: Trade, workshops and shops in Bet Shean/Scythopolis, 4th-8th centuries, Yoram Tsafrir; Ivory, bone, glass and other production at Alexandria, 5th-9th centuries, Elizabeth Rodziewicz; Polychrome ceramics in Preslav, 9th to 11th centuries: where were they produced and used?, Rossina Kostova. Section III Regional Markets: Brittle ware trade in Syria between the 5th and 8th centuries, Agnès Vokaer; Local painted pottery trade in early Byzantine Isauria, Mark P.C. Jackson; Ganos wine and its circulation in the 11th century, Nergis Günsenin. Section IV Product Tracking: Pottery, Glass, and Metal Fine Wares: Trade in the East Mediterranean in the 8th century, Pamela Armstrong; Trade of Byzantine red wares, end of the 11th-13th centuries, Ioanna Dimopoulos; Evaluating the movement of open-work glassware in late antiquity, Hallie Meredith; Distribution patterns of Middle Byzantine painted glass, Natalija Ristovska; Tracking Byzantine silver and copper metalware, 4th-12th centuries, Marlia Mundell Mango. Section V International Trade: Exports and Imports: Export wine trade to West and East, Michael Decker; Foreign glass excavated in China from the 4th to 12th centuries, Hiromi Kinoshita; On the Silk Route: imported and regional pottery at Zeugma, Philip M. Kenrick; Imported materia medica, 4th-12th centuries, and Byzantine pharmacology, Anne McCabe. Section VI Internation Trade: to West, South, East and North: West and North: Byzantine trade to the edge of the world: Mediterranean pottery imports to Atlantic Britain in the 6th century, Ewan Campbell and Christopher Bowles; Early tin extraction in the south-west of England: a resource for Mediterranean meta

’... this volume will remain for a long time to come the best assessment of present knowledge on early and mid-Byzantine trade. ... The symposiarch should be congratulated for impeccable editing, a rare feat when dealing with a multilingual bibliography and of course for such a comprehensive collection of papers.’ The Medieval Review