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UNINA9910449858103321 |
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Autore |
Verhulst Adriaan E. |
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Titolo |
The Carolingian economy / / Adriaan Verhulst [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-13171-5 |
1-280-15498-5 |
0-511-81708-8 |
0-511-11995-X |
0-511-04198-5 |
0-511-14838-0 |
0-511-33031-6 |
0-511-04472-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (160 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge medieval textbooks |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Economic history - Medieval, 500-1500 |
Carolingians |
France History To 987 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I LAND AND PEOPLE; PART II PRODUCTION; PART III COMMERCE; PART IV THE DYNAMICS OF THE CAROLINGIAN ECONOMY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 in English in over twenty years. The study of the Carolingian empire as an economic rather than a political entity can be justified both because of the major interference of political authority in the economy, and because of the distinctive economic characteristic of growth; and while some regions within the empire had a much more developed economy than others, the whole period is basically one of economic expansion, |
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