Reframing the Roman Economy

New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices

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

Buch | Hardcover

XXV, 406 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-06280-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Chapter 1: Pathways to reframing the Roman economy: from uniformity to diversity?.- Part I Unusual actors, attitudes and perspectives.- Chapter 2: Textile economy in the Veneto Region (North-Eastern Italy): a textile tools oriented spatial approach.- Chapter 3: Craftsmen and shopkeepers serving the army: the example of the colony of Lugdunum (1st century AD).- Part II Unconventional loci of production.- Chapter 5: Roman metallurgic production in the Veneto region between urban and rural contexts.- Chapter 6: Pigs in the city, bees on the roof: intra-urban animal husbandry and butchery in Roman Spain.- Chapter 7: Olive Oil Production and Economic Growth in the Roman Provinces: the Peculiar Case of Volubilis in Mauretania Tingitana.- Chapter 8: Roman road stations in Gallia Cisalpina: an archaeological approach to elusive central places.- Chapter 9: Ephemeral Economies? Investigating Roman wetland exploitation in the Pontine marshes (Lazio, Central Italy).- Chapter 10: Settling the Salinaria? Evaluating site location patterns of Iron Age and Roman salt production in northern Gaul.- Chapter 11: Ollae, cistulae, cadi, utres, cupae and other intangible vessels in the Roman economy. Some case studies.- Part V Revising traditional narratives.- Chapter 12: Reconstructing economic rural landscapes. The case of southern Etruria.- Chapter 13: Ancient Indian Ocean Trade and the Roman Economy.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2022
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies
Zusatzinfo	XXV, 406 p. 63 illus., 40 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	653 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	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	3-031-06280-9 / 3031062809
ISBN-13	978-3-031-06280-3 / 9783031062803
Zustand	Neuware