🎧 How the Mediterranean Created Wealth
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 26m
What does archaeology tell us about how regions in the Mediterranean built their wealth between the 10th to 12th centuries? How did economies grow in Egypt, Tunisia, Sicily, the Byzantine empire, Islamic Spain and Portugal, and north-central Italy? And what were their trading relationships with each other?Â
In this episode of Gone Medieval, Matt Lewis talks to Professor Chris Wickham, author of The Donkey and the Boat: Reinterpreting the Mediterranean Economy, 950-1180. Based on a completely new look at the sources, his research is forcing a rethink about how economies worked in the medieval Mediterranean.Â
This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.
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