ABSTRACT
The purpose of the symposium whose papers are published here was to examine the nature and extent of Byzantine trade prior to and in the wake of the Arab Conquest of the Levant in the 7th century, and during subsequent centuries. Trade is taken broadly as monetized or bartered exchange, but alternative mechanisms of circulation such as gift and pillage are also considered. The following papers focus on recent archaeological or other work related to local and international trade between the 4th and 12th centuries, rather than to the interregional movement of basic staples within the Mediterranean.
