Post-Roman Towns, Trade and Settlement in Europe and Byzantium, vol. 1: Heirs of the Roman West

Frontmatter
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Contents......Page 18
Early European towns. The development of the economy in the Frankish realm between dynamism and deceleration AD 500-1100......Page 28
Where do trading towns come from? Early medieval 
Venice and the northern emporia......Page 66
Provenancing Merovingian garnets by PIXE and μ-Raman spectrometry......Page 94
Flourishing places in North-Eastern Italy: towns and emporia between late antiquity and the Carolingian age......Page 102
Rome in the ninth century: the economic system......Page 130
Production and circulation of silver and secondary products (lead and glass) from Frankish royal silver mines at Melle (eighth to tenth century)......Page 148
The hinterlands of early medieval towns: the transformation of the countryside in Tuscany......Page 160
Where is the eighth century in the towns of the Meuse valley?......Page 178
Towns and rivers, river towns: environmental archaeology and the archaeological evaluation of urban activities and trade......Page 190
The royal foundation of Recópolis and the urban renewal in Iberia during the second half of the sixth century......Page 206
Recent archaeological research in Haithabu......Page 224
Agrarian production and the emporia of mid Saxon England, ca. AD 650-850......Page 244
Urbanisation in Northern and Eastern Europe, ca. AD 700-1100......Page 258
Urban archaeology in Magdeburg: results and prospects......Page 296
Micromorphology and post-Roman town research: the examples of London and Magdeburg......Page 328
Karlburg am Main (Bavaria) and its role as a local centre in the late Merovingian and Ottonian periods......Page 344
Some remarks on the topography of Franconofurd......Page 366
Marburg Castle: the cradle of the province Hesse, from Carolingian to Ottonian times......Page 378
Das karolingerzeitliche Kloster Fulda – ein „monasterium in solitudine”. Seine Strukturen und Handwerksproduktion nach den seit 1898 gewonnenen archäologischen Daten......Page 392
New findings of the excavations in Mosaburg/Zalavár (Western Hungary)......Page 436
“Tribal” societies and the rise of early medieval trade: archaeological evidence from Polish territories (eighth-tenth centuries)......Page 456
Counted and weighed silver: the fragmentation of coins in early medieval East Central Europe......Page 476
Early medieval centre in Pohansko near Břeclav/Lundeburg: munitio, emporium or palatium of the rulers of Moravia?......Page 498
Ninth-century Mikulčice: the “market of the Moravians”? The archaeological evidence of trade in Great Moravia......Page 524
Ein frühmittelalterliches Grubenhaus von Bielovce (Slowakei): Befund und Rekonstruktion......Page 550
On “Orient-preference” in archaeological research on the Avars, proto-Bulgarians and conquering Hungarians......Page 570
Backmatter
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