The Economic History of European Jews: Late Antiquity and Early Middle AgesThe Economic History of European Jews offers a radical revision of demographics and economics. It explains how the presence of Jews was a limited one and their trade was just that, trade by Jews, not “Jewish Trade”. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Regional Populations and Livelihoods | 7 |
Part Two Economic Functions and Significance | 175 |
Maps | 257 |
Appendix One Places of Jewish Settlement in the Byzantine Empire | 265 |
Appendix Two Places of Jewish Settlement in Italy | 273 |
Appendix Three Places of Jewish Settlement in France and Germany | 289 |
Appendix Four Places of Jewish Settlement in Iberia | 311 |
List of Abbreviations | 329 |
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