The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180

Cover\nThe Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950–1180\nCopyright\nDedication\nAcknowledgements\nContents\nList of Maps\nIllustrations of Ceramic Types\nList of Abbreviations\nMaps\n1 Introduction\n	A Note on Language\n2 Egypt\n	2.1 Introduction\n	2.2 Urban and Rural Hierarchies\n	2.3 The Agricultural Economy\n	2.4 Internal Exchange\n		2.4.1 Ceramics\n		2.4.2 Flax and linen\n		2.4.3 Wider patterns of trading\n		2.4.4 Internal exchange: concluding comments\n	2.5 Interregional Exchange\n3 North Africa and Sicily\n	3.1 North Africa as a Historical Problem\n	3.2 North African Archaeology and the North African Internal Economy\n	3.3 The geniza and Central Mediterranean Exchange\n	3.4 Sicily as a Historical Problem\n	3.5 The Archaeology of Sicily in the Long Eleventh Century\n	3.6 Norman Sicily: Rural Society and the Web of Production\n	3.7 The Central Mediterranean Regions into the Twelfth Century\n4 Byzantium\n	4.1 Introduction\n	4.2 Byzantine Internal Economic Differences\n		4.2.1 Constantinople and the Marmara\n		4.2.2 The Aegean Sea\n		4.2.3 The Anatolian plateau\n		4.2.4 The northern Balkans\n		4.2.5 The southern Adriatic and Ionian Seas\n	4.3 The Archaeology of Byzantine Exchange\n	4.4 Byzantine Exchange in the Written Record\n	4.5 The Logic of Byzantine Economic Expansion\n	4.6 Byzantium and the Mediterranean\n5 Islamic Spain and Portugal\n	5.1 Framings: Politics, Geography, and Sources\n	5.2 Debates\n	5.3 The Andalusī Urban Economy\n	5.4 Andalusī Production and Exchange in the Archaeology and Written Sources\n		5.4.1 Ceramics\n		5.4.2 Cloth, metal and other interconnections\n		5.4.3 The roots of growth\n	5.5 Islamic Spain and the Mediterranean, 950–1180\n6 North-CentralItaly\n	6.1 Modern Narratives\n	6.2 A Rural Italy\n	6.3 Venice and its Hinterland\n	6.4 Genoa\n	6.5 Pisa and Tuscany\n	6.6 Milan and Lombardy\n	6.7 Mediterranean Projection and Regional Fragmentation\n7 A Brief History of the Mediterranean Economy in the Tenth to Twelfth Centuries\n8 The Internal Logic of Feudal Economies\nBibliography\n	1. Unpublished Sources and Web-BasedSource Databases\n	2. Published Primary Sources, Including Secondary Works Consulted Principally for the Editions and Translations in them\n	3. Secondary Works\nIndex