Economic and Monetary History of Byzantium

Course Code
12Ι-5_12
ECTS Credits
6
Semester
Εξάμηνο ΣΤ
Course Category
Specialization
Ιστορίας και Διαχείρισης Πολιτισμικών Αγαθών
Professor

Dr. Dimitrios Vachaviolos, Special Lab and Teaching Staff

Course Description

Introduction (1st week):  Definition. Methodology matters  Bibliography cited and analysed  History of research, new perspectives 

Economic ideas and ideology of money in Byzantium: Theory and Practice (2nd week) 

Economic phenomena in Byzantium and general economic features of each period (3nd–4th week) 

Byzantine State Economy  Fiscal policy: The state budget (5th week) 

Fiscal policy: The Taxation (6th week) 

Urban economy: Trade and exchanges, manufacturing, applied arts, professions and guilds (7th-8th week) 

Agrarian economy: Cultivation methods and products, economic model of agricultural production, the wealthy landowners, the rural population, the village and the family as economic factors (9th-10th week)

Monetary system and administrative organization of the coin production (11th week) 

Monetary reforms (12th week) 

Money and markets in Byzantine world (13th week)