The Heirs of the Roman West (eBook)

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Joachim Henning, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 17
Early European towns. The development of the economy in the Frankish realm between dynamism and deceleration AD 500-1100 27
Where do trading towns come from? Early medieval Venice and the northern emporia 65
Provenancing Merovingian garnets by PIXE and µ-Raman spectrometry 93
Flourishing places in North-Eastern Italy: towns and emporia between late antiquity and the Carolingian age 101
Rome in the ninth century: the economic system 129
Production and circulation of silver and secondary products (lead and glass) from Frankish royal silver mines at Melle (eighth to tenth century) 147
The hinterlands of early medieval towns: the transformation of the countryside in Tuscany 159
Where is the eighth century in the towns of the Meuse valley? 177
Towns and rivers, river towns: environmental archaeology and the archaeological evaluation of urban activities and trade 189
The royal foundation of Recópolis and the urban renewal in Iberia during the second half of the sixth century 205
Recent archaeological research in Haithabu 223
Agrarian production and the emporia of mid Saxon England, ca. AD 650-850 243
Urbanisation in Northern and Eastern Europe, ca. AD 700-1100 257
Urban archaeology in Magdeburg: results and prospects 295
Micromorphology and post-Roman town research: the examples of London and Magdeburg 327
Karlburg am Main (Bavaria) and its role as a local centre in the late Merovingian and Ottonian periods 343
Some remarks on the topography of Franconofurd 365
Marburg Castle: the cradle of the province Hesse, from Carolingian to Ottonian times 377
Das karolingerzeitliche Kloster Fulda – ein „monasterium in solitudine”. Seine Strukturen und Handwerksproduktion nach den seit 1898 gewonnenen archäologischen Daten 391
New findings of the excavations in Mosaburg/Zalavár (Western Hungary) 435
“Tribal” societies and the rise of early medieval trade: archaeological evidence from Polish territories (eighth-tenth centuries) 455
Counted and weighed silver: the fragmentation of coins in early medieval East Central Europe 475
Early medieval centre in Pohansko near Breclav/Lundeburg: munitio, emporium or palatium of the rulers of Moravia? 497
Ninth-century Mikulcice: the “market of the Moravians”? The archaeological evidence of trade in Great Moravia 523
Ein frühmittelalterliches Grubenhaus von Bielovce (Slowakei): Befund und Rekonstruktion 549
On “Orient-preference” in archaeological research on the Avars, proto-Bulgarians and conquering Hungarians 569

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