Framing the Carolingian Economy
Matthew Innes
This essay argues that the degree of commercialization on Carolingian great estates should not be overstated. Rather, strategies and ambitions estate managers were primarily determined by a ‘domainal’ ideology concerns for good stewardship. Moreover, structural demands state may have played rather more important role in framing economic conditions than is commonly supposed. Here Carolingianists need to learn some lessons helped transform writing ancient history recent decades.
Journal of Agrarian Change