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.
Ccile Morrisson is Director of Research Emerita at Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, and Advisor for Byzantine Numismatics at Dumbarton Oaks.
Demetra Bakirtzi is an archaeologist in the Greek Archaeological Service.
Andr Binggeli is a researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris.
Jean-Michel Carrie is Director of Research at EHESS, Paris.
Rowan Dorin is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University.
Sauro Galechi is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Ca' Foscari of Venice.
John Haldon is Professor of Byzantine History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.
Johannes Koder is Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Byzantine and Neohellenic Studies at the University of Vienna.
Angeliki E. Laiou was Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University.
Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Kent, Canterbury.
Christopher Lightfoot is a curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Michael McCormick is Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History at Harvard University.
Dominique Pieri teaches late Roman and Early Byzantine archaeology at Panthon University in Paris.
Brigitte Pitarkis is charge de recherches at the Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, CNRS, Paris.
Scott Redford is Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, and Director of the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations at Ko University, Istanbul.
Peter Temin is Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics, Emeritus Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Alan Walmsley is MSO Professor of Islamic Archaeology and Art at the University of Copenhagen.