A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and archaeological sources to give a detailed account of both individual economies, and their relationships with each other.

Chris Wickham taught at Birmingham for nearly thirty years before moving to Oxford as Chichele Professor in 2005. He was Head of Department from 2009 to 2012, and Head of the Humanities Division in 2015 and 2016. He returned to Birmingham as pasrt-time Professor of Medieval History from 2016 until his retirement in 2021. He was Director of the British School at Rome in 2020-2021.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Egypt


• 3: North Africa and Sicily


• 4: Byzantium


• 5: Islamic Spain and Portugal


• 6: North-Central Italy


• 7: A Brief History of the Mediterranean Economy in the Tenth to Twelfth Centuries


• 8: The Internal Logic of Feudal Economies