The economy of the Carolingian empire (753-877), extended from the Pyrenees and the northern shores of the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and from the Atlantic coast to the Elbe and Saale rivers. Aspects of land and people, agrarian production and technique, craft and industry, and regional and international commerce are analyzed, and the Carolingian economy is reassessed in a European context.
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"The Caroligian Economy is an extremely useful compendium, orderly and deft in its presentation of a remote period's economics. In this book the author has synthesized enormous amounts of research in many languages, performing a service to speacialists in Carolingian and economic history... in The Carolingian Economy Verhulst furnishes a concise and judicious synthesis, full of information and insight, that is actually fun to read." Economic History
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This book is about the economy of the Carolingian empire (753 877), which extended from the Pyrenees and the northern shores of the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and from the Atlantic coast to the Elbe and Saale rivers. It is the first comprehensive evaluation of the topic to appear in English in over twenty years. Aspects of land and people, agrarian production and technique, craft and industry, and regional and international commerce are analysed, and the Carolingian economy is reassessed in a European context.
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The Carolingian landscape was for a large part, on the average for more than 40 per cent and in some regions up to 80 per cent, a natural landscape, consisting mainly of woods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Charles the Bald, Jean-Pierre Devroey, Louis the Pious, Adriaan Verhulst, Adalhard of Corbie, Belgian Ardennes, New York, Philip Grierson, North Sea, Carolingian Europe, San Vincenzo al Volturno, Der Handel, Henri Pirenne, Pierre Toubert, Revue du Nord, Simon Coupland, The Long Eighth Century, Baie de Bourgneuf, Etienne Renard, Georges Duby, Ludolf Kuchenbuch, Polyptyque Saint-Bertin, Richard Hodges, Yoshiki Morimoto New!
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The Carolingian landscape was for a large part, on the average for more than 40 per cent and in some regions up to 80 per cent, a natural landscape, consisting mainly of woods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Charles the Bald, Jean-Pierre Devroey, Louis the Pious, Adriaan Verhulst, Adalhard of Corbie, Belgian Ardennes, New York, Philip Grierson, North Sea, Carolingian Europe, San Vincenzo al Volturno, Der Handel, Henri Pirenne, Pierre Toubert, Revue du Nord, Simon Coupland, The Long Eighth Century, Baie de Bourgneuf, Etienne Renard, Georges Duby, Ludolf Kuchenbuch, Polyptyque Saint-Bertin, Richard Hodges, Yoshiki Morimoto New!
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- The Long Eighth Century (Transformation of the Roman World) by Inge Lyse Hansen on 12 pages
- Charles the Bald (Medieval World) by Janet L. Nelson on 10 pages
- Towns in the Viking Age by Helen Clarke in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 91
- Mohammed and Charlemagne by Henri Pirenne in Front Matter, page 132, and Back Matter
- Dark Age Economics by Richard Hodges in Front Matter, page 91, and Back Matter
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- Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) by Florin Curta in Back Matter
- East Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages by Florin Curta in Front Matter
- Struggle for Empire: Kingship and Conflict Under Louis the German, 817-876 by Eric J. Goldberg on page 201
- Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series) by Simon MacLean in Back Matter
- Medieval Economic Thought (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) by Diana Wood in Back Matter
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