Description: How are markets in antiquity to be characterized? As comparable to modern free markets? As controlled by the State? Or in completely different terms, as free but regulated? Here, scholars address these and related questions by reexamining and reinterpreting records from Byzantium and its hinterland for local, regional, and interregional trade.
Brief description: Angeliki E. Laiou (1941-2008) was Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University and Director of Dumbarton Oaks.