Seminarium: The globalisation trap: The Piasts, the Samanids, and the dangers of long-distance trade

02 05 2024

Kategoria: seminarium, Seminarium CBRS

Serdecznie zapraszamy na kolejne seminarium Centrum Badania Ryzyka Systemowego UW.

Seminarium odbędzie się 7 maja 2024 r. w godzinach 19:30-21:00 w naszej sali konferencyjnej, ul. Dobra 56/66, Warszawa, sala 2.90, a także na platformie Zoom (link do spotkania poniżej).

Nasz Gość: Marek Jankowiak, Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk: https://ihpan.edu.pl/en/employees/researcher/marek-jankowiak-2/

Tytuł: The globalisation trap: The Piasts, the Samanids, and the dangers of long-distance trade (abstrakt poniżej)

Center for Systemic Risk Analysis Seminar (University of Warsaw) | Marek Jankowiak, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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The globalisation trap: The Piasts, the Samanids, and the dangers of long-distance trade

Abstract: Most interpretations of the rise and fall of the first Piast state – the state of Mieszko I, his immediate ancestors, and his son and grandson – emphasise the role of internal factors and relations with its closest neighbors. I would like to take a different perspective: that of its contacts with Central Asia. By interpreting the tens of thousands of dirhams, Islamic silver coins, imported from Central Asia to Greater Poland in the tenth century as the residue of a long-distance trade system, I would like to show how the changing rhythms of this trade shaped the policies of the Piasts and other north European rulers. I will focus in particular on the final stage of these contacts and their cessation in the final decades of the tenth century. How did the northern Europeans deal with the disconnection from Central Asian silver? What mitigating strategies did they develop? I will conclude by asking whether the difficulties faced by the Piasts and their colleagues can be interpreted as an early case of the globalisation trap.

Fot. Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons