Merovingian Gaul and the Mediterranean

Abstract

This chapter assesses what ceramics can tell us about the interaction of Gaul with Mediterranean trade in the Merovingian period. Broken into three main chronological periods, the analysis suggests some of the possible developments that affected trade in African Red Slipware, amphorae, and associated artifacts. With precipitous drops in population and the abandonment circa 455 of the annona grain shipments, which also provided transport for ceramic goods, the fifth century saw a steady decline in the supply that reached Gaul from both the eastern and western Mediterranean. The decrease in imports led, in turn, to its replacement by local forms of tableware, including those most famously known as Dérivées-des-Sigillées Paléochrétiennes, (derivatives of early Christian sigillata). By the early sixth century, however, Gaul saw a revival of trade, and with the annexation of Provence in 536, the Merovingian kingdoms gained, for the first time, a Mediterranean port in the city of Marseille. The port made some of the goods of Mediterranean trade accessible not just to the south but also the northern parts of Gaul, where occasional amphorae are found. Gaul’s engagement with Mediterranean trade occurred until at least the 730s, but future research may push that date even later into the Merovingian period.

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