The Mediterranean economy

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22 - The Mediterranean economy

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contexts: evidence and antecedents

Two issues that shape any general interpretation of the Mediterranean economy of the sixth and seventh centuries are the problems of the available evidence and the question of the nature of the ancient economy that preceded it. The limitations of the written sources are well known. In particular, no documentary data survive of a type that permits any serious attempt at quantitative analysis. Instead of the records which are the stuff of economic history, we usually have only stories. There are a handful of short texts that are wholly or partly concerned with economic matters. For the most part, however, we depend upon anecdotal indications afforded by a host of authors united by little more than their indifference to economic affairs, in whose writings the fleeting appearances of merchants or traded goods are almost invariably tangential. Gregory of Tours, for example, reports how a ship from Spain put in at Marseilles in 588, carrying the ‘usual cargo’. He tells us this to provide the context for an outbreak of the plague, disseminated through the port via the purchase of this merchandise, but in the absence of any other direct references to Mediterranean exchange between Spain and Francia in this period, its nature remains a matter for speculation. Even Leontius of Naples’ Life of St John the Almsgiver, which offers an exceptional series of insights into the commercial relationships of the church of Alexandria in the early seventh century, does so less from any sense of their intrinsic importance than because of their value as illustrations of the charitable behaviour of its main protagonist.

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late antique exchange-network Egyptian grain coastal producers annona system Byzantine Empire Mediterranean economy

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