Table of Contents

List of maps; Preface; 1. Trade and industry in Barbarian Europe till Roman times David L. Clarke; 2. Trade and industry under the later Roman Empire in the West Frank William Walbank; 3. Byzantine trade and industry M. M. Postan; 4. The trade of medieval Europe: the south Robert S. Lopez; 5. Asia, Africa and the trade of medieval Europe David Abulafia; 6. Trade and industry in Eastern Europe before 1200 Aleksander Gieysztor; 7. The trade of Eastern Europe in the Later Middle Ages Marian Malowist; 8. The woollen industry Elanora Carus-Wilson; 9. Mining and metallurgy in medieval civilisation John U. Nef; 10. Building in stone in medieval western Europe Gwilym Peredur Jones; 11. Coinage and currency Peter Spufford; Bibliographies.

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A survey of trade and industry in pre-Roman, Roman and Byzantine Europe.