Mining, Metallurgy and Minting in the Middle Ages
Vol: 1. Asiatic Supremacy, 425-1125
2001. XIV, 550 Seiten mit zahlreichen
Abbildungen, Karten und Tabellen. Geb.
Euro 100,-. ISBN 3-515-07958-0
The first of four volumes, which examine non-ferrous precious and base metal mining, metallurgy and minting in the Middle Ages, encompasses the history of these activities during the years 425--1125. It describes the shift in the focus of world precious metal production from the Western Roman Empire (-350), to the Sassanid and Byzantine Empires (350--650) and Central Asia (480-930). Central Asia dominated for almost half a millennium world precious and base metal production, before output collapsed and an industrial diaspora caused the foci of silver and gold production to shift to Europe and sub-Saharan Africa respectively (930-1125). Mining activity in Central Asia, 480-930 is examined in depth, as is also its impact on local society and the distribution of precious metals from there to China, India and South-east Asia, Asia Minor and, via the Trans-Pontine steppes, to Europe. It also explores the impact of this flow of Sassanid-Islamic silver and gold on European mining and monetary systems, when that trade was at its height (560-930) and the response of the Europeans to the great "Silver Famine" occasioned by the collapse of Central Asian production (930-1125). Details
Vol: 2. Afro-European Supremacy, 1125--1225
(African
Gold Production and the First European
SilverProduction
Long- Cycle)
2001. XXXV 369 Seiten mit zahlreichen
Abbildungen,
Karten und Tabellen . Geb.
Euro 88,-. ISBN 3-515-07967-X
The second volume examines the rise to world dominance of silver and gold production, during the first great output long-cycle (1125-1225), in new locations in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. It explores the organisation of the industry at this time, the reversal of the contemporary specie flow and the distribution of these precious metals throughout Europe and to lands beyond the bounds of that continent. It also describes the beginnings of autonomous European base metal - lead, copper, tin and mercury- production, the organisation of the "new" industry, its levels of output and the distribution of these metals to new groups of European consumers. Details
NEW
Vol. 3. Continuing Afro-European Supremacy, 1250-1450
(African Gold Production and the Second and Third European Silver Production
Long-Cycles)
2005. LXII, 786 pages with numerous figures, maps and tables. Price. Euro 136,-/ sFr 217,60.ISBN 3-515-08704-4 ( April 2005)
In the years covered by this volume, 1250-1450, the production patterns,
in both the European precious and base metal industries, first established
in the twelfth century, and described in volume two, continued to be played
out. This now took place however in the context of a continuous process of
increasingly acute resource depletion, which finally culminated in the terminal
mining crisis of the 1450s. Even as European silver production declined, however,
compensatory supplies of precious metals became for the first time available
as a counter-cyclical production pattern came to characterize a newly emergent
European gold industry which by 1450 had displaced African gold as the main
source of supply to European mints. African gold increasingly was supplied
to African and Asiatic markets. Details
Aus dem Inhalt:
Vol. 1. Asiatic Supremacy, 425-1125. The Post-Roman Golden Age, ca. 420-620A.D.-The
Renaissance of Mining and Metallurgy in the Sassanid World, 300-650A.D. Part
I.Gold Mining and Trade in the World of Islam. Part II. Central Asian Supremacy:
Mawara'an-nahr and the Semiryechye. Part III. Central Asiatic Specie and European
Silver Production
Vol. 2. Afro-European Supremacy, 1125--1225 (African Gold Production and the First European Silver Production Long- Cycle). Part I Precious Metal Production, Silver, Gold and Mercury.- Part II International Base Metal Production: Lead, Tin and Copper.
Vol.3. Continuing Afro-European Supremacy, 1250-1450 (African Gold Production
and the Second and Third European Silver Production Long-Cycles). Part I.
European Precious Metal Production and Trade: Silver, Gold and Mercury. Part
II. Islamic Precious Metal Production and Trade: Silver, Gold and Mercury.
Part III. Base Metal Production and Trade: Lead, Tin and Copper. Part IV.
Business Studies.
Interessenten:
Mining historians-Ancient and Medieval Economic historians-Islamic
historians-Climatic and Environmental historians-Numismatists
and Monetary historians
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