Reframing the Roman Economy (eBook)

New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices

Dimitri Van Limbergen, Adeline Hoffelinck, Devi Taelman (Herausgeber)

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2022 | 1st ed. 2022
XXV, 406 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-06281-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book focuses on those features of the Roman economy that are less traceable in text and archaeology, and as a consequence remain largely underexplored in contemporary scholarship. By reincorporating, for the first time, these long-obscured practices in mainstream scholarly discourses, this book offers a more complete and balanced view of an economic system that for too long has mostly been studied through its macro-economic and large-scale - and thus archaeologically and textually omnipresent - aspects. The topic is approached in five thematic sections, covering unusual actors and perspectives, unusual places of production, exigent landscapes of exploitation, less-visible products and artefacts, and divergent views on emblematic economic spheres. To this purpose, the book brings together a select group of leading scholars and promising early career researchers in archaeology and ancient economic history, well positioned to steer this ill-developed but fundamental field of the Roman economy in promising new directions.

Dimitri Van Limbergen is a researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. His main areas of study are Roman archaeology and economic history.

Adeline Hoffelinck is a researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. She researches the transformation of commercial infrastructure in Roman cities during their urbanization.

Devi Taelman is a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is interested in the study of the economy of ornamental stones used in antiquity, and in human-environment interactions in Roman Antiquity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies
• Zusatzinfo: XXV, 406 p. 63 illus., 40 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Animal husbandry and butchery in Roman Spain • Children in the Roman farming economy • Divergent economies in the Roman period • Reconstructing economic rural landscapes • Roman metallurgic production in the Veneto region • Roman road stations in Gallia Cisalpina • Roman salt production in northern Gaul • Textile economy in the Veneto region • The colony of Lugdunum • The economy of oil production
• ISBN-10: 3-031-06281-7 / 3031062817
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-06281-0 / 9783031062810