: Joachim Henning
: The Heirs of the Roman West Heirs of the Roman West
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110218848
: Millennium-Studien / Millennium StudiesISSN
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In this collection leading international authorities analyse the structures and economic functions of non-agrarian centres between ca. 500 and 1000 A.D. –  their trade, their surrounding settlements, and the agricultural and cultural milieux. The thirty-one papers presented at an international conference held in Bad Homburg focus on recent archaeological discoveries in Central Europe (Vol.1), as well as on those from southeastern Europe to Asia Minor (Vol. 2).



Joachim Henning, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Frontmatter1
Contents17
Early European towns. The development of the economy in the Frankish realm between dynamism and deceleration AD 500-110027
Where do trading towns come from? Early medieval Venice and the northern emporia65
Provenancing Merovingian garnets by PIXE and µ-Raman spectrometry93
Flourishing places in North-Eastern Italy: towns and emporia between late antiquity and the Carolingian age101
Rome in the ninth century: the economic system129
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 Tuscany159
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 trade189
The royal foundation of Recópolis and the urban renewal in Iberia during the second half of the sixth century205
Recent archaeological research in Haithabu223
Agrarian production and the emporia of mid Saxon England, ca. AD 650-850243
Urbanisation in Northern and Eastern Europe, ca. AD 700-1100257
Urban archaeology in Magdeburg: results and prospects295
Micromorphology and post-Roman town research: the examples of London and Magdeburg327
Karlburg am Main (Bavaria) and its role as a local centre in the late Merovingian and Ottonian periods343
Some remarks on the topography of Franconofurd365
Marburg Castle: the cradle of the province Hesse, from Carolingian to Ottonian times377
Das karolingerzeitliche Kloster Fulda – ein „monasterium in solitudine”. Seine Strukturen und Handwerksproduktion nach den seit 1898 gewonnenen archäologischen Daten391
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 Europe475
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 Moravia523
Ein frühmittelalterliches Grubenhaus von Bielovce (Slowakei): Befund und Rekonstruktion549
On “Orient-preference” in archaeological research on the Avars, proto-Bulgarians and conquering Hungarians569