Orthodox Mercantilism - Feldman, Alex

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Auteur(s) : Feldman, Alex

Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/04/2024

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 312

Expédition : 612

Dimensions : 24.0 x 16.1 x 2.1

ISBN : 9781032376691

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Biographie:

Alex M. Feldman is the chair of the department of languages and literature at CIS-Endicott International University of Madrid. He received a BA from Roger Williams University of Rhode Island and received an MRes and PhD from the University of Birmingham. He has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of London's Warburg Institute and has taught at the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey, the State University of New York, Rockland and the University of Birmingham.

Sommaire:

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 ?cumene be interpreted?

The ?cumene

Chapter 1: The Byzantine Commonwealth unfolds

Byzantium and the baptism of Vladimir, 986-989 - the problems of the sources

The evidence of Cherson's involvement in the Phokas rebellion, 987-989

A reassemblage of the revisionist hypothesis, 987-989

Chapter 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

Chapter 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)

From the Zakon Sudnyj Ljudem to the Korm?aja Kniga

Chapter 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

Chapter 5: The hoarding period: Eastern Europe, 11th-14th centuries

Bullion, deniers and debasement

Barter, debt and law

Imagined borders

Chapter 6: Sovereignty and bullion: 13-17th centuries

Coins of the Roman?a dynasties

Coins of the ?cumene dynasties

Epilogue: Cycles of Divergence and convergence

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

Liberal interpretations of zero-sum economic history

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index