Byzantine and Sasanian Trade Relations with Northeastern Russia

Frye, Richard N.

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“…Th e late sixth century also saw an expansion of trade with the regions north of the Caspian. 126 Here, in north-eastern Russia, the chief means of exchange (in the Kama-Perm regions) were the large numbers of silver bowls and other silver objects that have turned up there. A lot of Sasanian silver was recycled to the north by Sogdian merchants , 127 showing that beneath the incessant political fl uctuations in this vast landscape, the caravans continued to circulate because traders from diff erent nationalities depended on each other.…”

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Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity

Banaji¹

2015

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This collection of essays, by leading historian Jairus Banaji, provides a stimulating rebuttal to the prevailing minimalism in late antique studies. Together, they strike a balance between the wide lens and more specialised discussion, expanding on the perspective and argumentation laid out in an earlier book, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity (2001). Successive chapters discuss the scale of the late Roman gold currency, the economic nature of the aristocracy, the importance of trade, relations between the state and the ruling class, and the problem of continuity into the early Middle Ages. A substantial introduction pulls together the themes of the book into a coherent synopsis, while the preface clarifies the broad aims behind the study. The book as a whole deploys a wide range of sources in various languages and is intended for ancient historians, students of late antiquity, and economic historians more generally.

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Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity

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2015

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“…Indeed, the ceramic evidence would argue that the intensity of this trade was hardly surpassed in the later Middle Ages, and that there was a near monopoly operated by Sasanian merchants supported by the state. 13 There is also good evidence of a revival in trade overland with Chinaa highly monetised trade -in the last forty or so years of Sasanian rule, as political conditions in China stabilised and as Sasanian power and influence in the regions beyond Khurasan were strengthened. Sasanian commercial activity in a wide range of luxury goods, both from west to east and vice versa was influential, and played also an important role in the economies of those regions of central Asia as well as of China with which it was associated.…”

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