‘Elites’ and iron production: The Carolingian perspective
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
‘Elites’ and iron production: The Carolingian perspective
Original language description
This chapter critically reassesses the role of elites in Carolingian iron production, arguing against both a purely market-driven model and a fully elite-controlled command economy. Drawing on archaeological and historical case studies, it shows that iron mining, smelting, and processing were largely decentralised and locally organised, though often shaped by manorial structures and elite interests. Peasant and multi-craft communities played a central role in production, while elites primarily influenced attached workshops producing valuables at higher-order sites such as monasteries and courts. Overall, the Carolingian iron economy is presented as heterogeneous, flexible, and embedded in complex networks of redistribution, exchange, and local markets.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GX25-15764X" target="_blank" >GX25-15764X: Frontiers and Empires. The Case of Moymirid Moravia</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Early medieval elite culture in supra-regional perspective: society, centres, artefacts
ISBN
978-80-7524-104-7
Number of pages of the result
14
Pages from-to
25-38
Number of pages of the book
298
Publisher name
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Brno
Place of publication
Brno
UT code for WoS chapter
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