Orthodox mercantilism: political economy in the Byzantine commonwealth

Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
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 œcumene be Interpreted?
The Œcumene
	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
	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
	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 Kormčaja Kniga
	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
	5 The Hoarding Period: Eastern Europe, 11th–14th Centuries
		Bullion, Deniers and Debasement
		Barter, Debt and Law
		Imagined Borders
	6 Sovereignty and Bullion: 13th–17th Centuries
		Coins of the Romanía Dynasties
		Coins of the Œcumene 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
Index