Exploring the Economy of Byzantine Italy

• Autores: Paolo Tedesco
• Localización: Journal of European Economic History, ISSN 0391-5115, Vol. 45, Nº. 2, 2016, págs. 179-193
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The sixth century CE was a period of intense – and at times dramatic – political transformation in Italy. While the political and military disruptions may have corresponded to a general economic decline, a number of recent studies have shed light on the specifics of the economic infrastructures and functions of single regions.

    These works have emphasized not just differences in levels of eco- nomic development or regression in areas like the exarchate, the Northern Adriatic region,Liguria , Abruzzo,Apulia,Calabria Sardinia, and Sicily , but a set of similarities that would appear toconfirm the thesis of the coexistence of a plurality of Byzantine“Italies” under a single political and administrative label.