Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- CHAPTER I Trade and Industry in Barbarian Europe till Roman Times
- CHAPTER II Trade and Industry under the Later Roman Empire in the West
- CHAPTER III Byzantine Trade and Industry
- CHAPTER IV The Trade of Medieval Europe: the North
- CHAPTER V The Trade of Medieval Europe: the South
- CHAPTER VI Asia, Africa and the Trade of Medieval Europe
- CHAPTER VII Trade and Industry in Eastern Europe Before 1200
- CHAPTER VIII The Trade of Eastern Europe in the Later Middle Ages
- CHAPTER IX The Woollen Industry
- CHAPTER X Mining and Metallurgy in Medieval Civilisation
- CHAPTER XI Building in Stone in Medieval Western Europe
- CHAPTER XII Coinage and Currency
- Appendix A Table of Medieval Money
- Bibliographies
- Map 1: The Empire under Diocletian
- Map 7: Eastern Europe in the Later Middle Ages
- References
CHAPTER VII - Trade and Industry in Eastern Europe Before 1200
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2008
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- CHAPTER I Trade and Industry in Barbarian Europe till Roman Times
- CHAPTER II Trade and Industry under the Later Roman Empire in the West
- CHAPTER III Byzantine Trade and Industry
- CHAPTER IV The Trade of Medieval Europe: the North
- CHAPTER V The Trade of Medieval Europe: the South
- CHAPTER VI Asia, Africa and the Trade of Medieval Europe
- CHAPTER VII Trade and Industry in Eastern Europe Before 1200
- CHAPTER VIII The Trade of Eastern Europe in the Later Middle Ages
- CHAPTER IX The Woollen Industry
- CHAPTER X Mining and Metallurgy in Medieval Civilisation
- CHAPTER XI Building in Stone in Medieval Western Europe
- CHAPTER XII Coinage and Currency
- Appendix A Table of Medieval Money
- Bibliographies
- Map 1: The Empire under Diocletian
- Map 7: Eastern Europe in the Later Middle Ages
- References
Summary
Introduction
It is hardly necessary to point out that what passed for trade and industry in the early Middle Ages bore little resemblance to the complex economic activity of the later Middle Ages and more modern times. The sources available to us and the conceptual apparatus of the historian cannot fully interpret the vaguely perceived forms of economic life during the early centuries of the Middle Ages in Eastern Europe. Such written sources as exist mainly tell us about long-distance trade. Within the last forty years, however, these documents have been reinforced by archaeological excavations which reveal fragmentary glimpses of the daily life of the Slavonic peoples. Typical finds in these excavations have thrown light on the various objects which were produced and consumed and this has helped us to reach certain conclusions of a qualitative, if not a quantitative, nature.
The exchange of goods and handicrafts in that early period is frequently referred to in the literature on the subject, but the dichotomy of a subsistence and an exchange economy in all its social and economic aspects is not a straightforward one, and the terms historians are forced to use when studying those far-off days are not altogether relevant.
Until at least the end of the eleventh century the peoples of the eastern and western Slavonic countries lived in a largely subsistence economy. It was a way of life in which the time and energies of small, widely dispersed groups of people, living in clearings in the huge forests, were devoted to producing goods to be consumed within the group.
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