| Description |
1 online resource (311 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Prologue: A Zero-sum World -- Pronoia: Orthodox Feudalism? -- Mercantilism 101 -- What was the "Byzantine Commonwealth"? -- Byzantium: Nation-state or Civilization-state? -- Did Byzantium Generate a "Commonwealth"? -- How should the œcumene be Interpreted? -- The Œcumene -- 1 The Byzantine Commonwealth Unfolds -- Byzantium and the baptism of Vladimir, 986-989 -- The Problems of the Sources |
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The evidence of Cherson's Involvement in the Phokas Rebellion, 987-989 -- A Reassemblage of the Revisionist Hypothesis, 987-989 -- 2 The Rus'ian Metropolitanate: "Proto-state" or Exarchate? -- Beyond Commonwealth -- Byzantine Western Exarchates of the 6th-8th Centuries -- The Loyalty of the thema of Bulgaria after 1019 -- The Metropolitanate of Rus'ia Reconsidered -- The Law -- 3 From Customary law to Christian Law -- The Russkaja Pravda (11th-12th Centuries) -- Byzantine legal Influences in the Expanded Russkaja Pravda -- The Adoption of the Zakon Sudnyj Ljudem (9th-12th Centuries) |
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From the Zakon Sudnyj Ljudem to the Kormčaja Kniga -- 4 Overlapping Sovereignties: Empire, commonwealth and Jurisdiction -- Orthodox tax, Debt and property Law to the 13th Century -- Orthodox tax, Debt and property Law since the 13th Century -- The Coin -- 5 The Hoarding Period: Eastern Europe, 11th-14th Centuries -- Bullion, Deniers and Debasement -- Barter, Debt and Law -- Imagined Borders -- 6 Sovereignty and Bullion: 13th-17th Centuries -- Coins of the Romanía Dynasties -- Coins of the Œcumene Dynasties -- Epilogue: Cycles of Divergence and Convergence |
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Misconceptions of Feudalism and Mercantilism -- The Misconception that Roman laws and Feudal laws have been Different -- The Misconception that Feudalism has been Exclusive to Latin Christendom -- The Misconception that Feudalism and Mercantilism have been mutually Exclusive Economic Systems -- The Contested Inheritance of Byzantium's Political Economy and Rhetoric -- Orthodox Ecumenism -- Rex Catholicissimus, the Spains and "The Powerful Mr. Money" -- Pravoslavie, the Russias and "The Artery of War -- Money" -- The Great Divergence? -- Ecumenical Sovereignty and the National Idea |
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Liberal Interpretations of Zero-sum Economic History -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renaissance |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781040009697 |
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1040009697 |
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