Economic Thought and Economic Life in Byzantium

Zusatztext 'Reading these studies! most for the second time! reminded me of the clarity and precision of Laiou's thought and writing style. Yes! there is some repetition here and some unevenness! but overall the collection does lay out most of the major problems that face contemporary studies of the Byzantine economy.' Speculum Informationen zum Autor Angeliki E. Laiou (1941 - 2008) was Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University! USA. Angeliki Laiou (1941-2008), one of the leading Byzantinists of her generation, broke new ground in the study of the social and economic history of the Byzantine Empire. Economic Thought and Economic Life in Byzantium, the last of three volumes to be published posthumously in the Variorum Collected Studies Series. Zusammenfassung Angeliki Laiou (1941-2008), one of the leading Byzantinists of her generation, broke new ground in the study of the social and economic history of the Byzantine Empire. Economic Thought and Economic Life in Byzantium, the last of three volumes to be published posthumously in the Variorum Collected Studies Series. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Introduction! Cécile Morrisson; Part I Economic Thought: God and Mammon: credit! trade! profit and the canonists; The Church! economic thought and economic practice; Social justice: exchange and prosperity in Byzantium; Nummus parit nummos: l'usurier! le jurist at le philosophe à Byzance; Economic concerns and attitudes of the intellectuals of Thessalonike; Le débat sur les droits du fisc et les droits régaliens au début du 14e siècle. Part II Economic Life: On individuals! aggregates and mute social groups; Priests and bishops in the Byzantine countryside! 13th-14th centuries; The peasant as donor (13th-14th centuries); A history of mills and monks: the case of the mill of Chantax (with Dieter Simon); The Byzantine village (5th-14th century); The Byzantine city: parasitic or productive?; Index. ...

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• Authors: Angeliki E. Laiou, Angeliki E./ Morrisson Laiou, Laiou Angeliki E., edited by Cécile Morrisson, Ms Cecile Morrisson
• Assisted by: Mr Rowan Dorin (Editor), Rowan Dorin (Editor), Cecile Morrisson (Editor), Cécile Morrisson (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2013
• EAN: 9781409432050
• ISBN: 978-1-4094-3205-0
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies; Variorum Collected Studies Series; Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Byzantine Empire, Economic history, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Byzantine Empire