Introduction

Part I: Economy

1. Coins, forts and commercial exchanges in the sixth- and early seventh-century Balkans

2. Postcards from Maurilia, or the historiography of the Dark-Age cities of Byzantium

3. Origins of the European economy. A debate with Michael McCormick. East Central Europe

4. A note on trade and trade centers in the eastern and northern Adriatic region between the eighth and the ninth century

5. Markets in tenth-century al-Andalus and Volga Bulgharia: contrasting views of trade in Muslim Europe


Part2: Charlemagne and later issues

6. Charlemagne in medieval East Central Europe (ca. 800 to ca. 1200)

7. Linear frontiers in the 9th century: Bulgaria and Wessex

8. Constantinople and the echo chamber. The Vlachs in the French crusade chronicles

9. Teutonic hierotopy: St. Christopher at Lochstedt

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