晚期罗马帝国与地中海世界周边“蛮族”的经济互动及其特征

On the Economic Interactions and its Characters Between the Later Roman Empire and the Barbarians around the Mediterranean World

晚期罗马帝国的边疆地区是其与地中海世界周边“蛮族”经济互动的主要渠道。经由边疆进行的商品交换既包括贵重商品,又包括大宗日用品。结合文献资料与考古发掘成果,可以看出,无论是远距离奢侈品贸易还是帝国与地中海世界周边“蛮族”地区之间大宗产品交换,均具有时间上的长期性特征。与此同时,帝国与周边“蛮族”之间的日常经济互动广泛发生于帝国所有边疆地区,而非仅局限于局部特定区域。这种经济互动总体上对于交易双方而言是互利的。正是因为如此,双方的经济互动才能长期并普遍存在。

The major ways of the economic interactions between the Later Roman Empire and the barbarians around the Mediterranean World were the frontiers of the empire.The exchanges of commodities included the luxury goods and the bulk commodities of consumer goods.To combine the literatures and the archaeological achievements,we could come to the conclusion that there was a character of the chronicity in time,whether the long-distance trades of the luxury goods or the trades of the bulk consumer goods between the empire and the barbarians around the Mediterranean World.At the meantime,the everyday economic interactions between the empire and the barbarians around it was not limited in some specific areas,but occurred widely in the all of the frontiers of the empire.In general,the economic interactions had mutual benefit to the both sides,and the mutual benefit was the basic reason to ensure the economic interactions between them to exist chronically and widely.