The economic fate of urban settlements in Rhomanian Boeotia, Thessaly, and Western Macedonia (783-1204)
Although there are enough studies on the economic history of late 8th-early 13th century Rhomanian Greece (for my use of the term âRhomanianâ rather than âByzantineâ, see the end of section I) to warrant years of intensive reading, few of them are regional or multi-regional in their scope. Largescale interpretations have been correspondingly few. The most noteworthy one â with regard to the regions that I am studying â is that Boeotia was home to one of the finest silk industries in the Empire in the late 11th-12th centuries. Using all available sources of information (ecclesiastical, hagiographical, geographic monographs, court chronicles, weather station statistics, archaeological monuments and artifacts, and so on), I examined urban settlements based on five main criteria: the quality and pervasiveness of ceramic material, the distribution of currency, the presence of a Jewish population, the incidence of sigillographic data, the magnitude, quality, and frequency of architectural projects, and the size and number of settlements. I found that there is ample evidence for growth in the domains of demography, silk production (whose quantitative element still hangs in the balance, however), exports
de Rosen, Elie
CC Archaeology ; DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World
The economic fate of urban settlements in Rhomanian Boeotia, Thessaly, and Western Macedonia (783-1204). Although there are enough studies on the economic history of late 8th-early 13th century Rhomanian Greece (for my use of the term âRhomanianâ rather than âByzantineâ, see the end of section I) to warrant years of intensive reading, few of them are regional or multi-regional in their scope. Largescale interpretations have been correspondingly few. The most noteworthy one â with regard to the regions that I am studying â is that Boeotia was home to one of the finest silk industries in the Empire in the late 11th-12th centuries. Using all available sources of information (ecclesiastical, hagiographical, geographic monographs, court chronicles, weather station statistics, archaeological monuments and artifacts, and so on), I examined urban settlements based on five main criteria: the quality and pervasiveness of ceramic material, the distribution of currency, the presence of a Jewish population, the incidence of sigillographic data, the magnitude, quality, and frequency of architectural projects, and the size and number of settlements. I found that there is ample evidence for growth in the domains of demography, silk production (whose quantitative element still hangs in the balance, however), exports
economic fate urban_settlement thessaly western macedonia although enough study economic_history greece use term rather byzantine see end section warrant year intensive reading regional multi regional scope largescale interpretation correspondingly few noteworthy regard region study home fine silk industry empire using available_source information ecclesiastical hagiographical geographic monograph court chronicle weather station statistic archaeological_monument artifact examine urban_settlement base five_main criterion quality pervasiveness ceramic_material distribution currency presence jewish population incidence data magnitude quality frequency architectural project size number settlement find ample evidence growth domains demography silk production whose quantitative element still balance however export