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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 27 May 2024

This book contributes to a new economic history of late antiquity, with tightly argued, stimulating studies of class, money and exchange.

• Publisher : Oxbow Books
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• Release Date : 01 May 2015

The results of recent archaeological excavation, systematic rural survey and detailed studies of pottery distributions have revealed the extent and complexities of the economy in the eastern empire. The eight

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 17 May 2007

In a critique of Max Weber's influential ideas about the Mediterranean region in late antiquity, Jairus Banaji shows that the fourth to seventh centuries were in fact a period of

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 22 November 2012

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 13 July 2020

Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean brings together diverse scholarship to explore the socioeconomic dynamics of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage from archaic Greece to Late Antiquity, the Greek mainland to

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 21 March 2018

This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 26 April 2016

Long-distance trade under Rome is well-understood. But the importance of local exchange has not been fully explored. The volume investigates how inland regions could become prosperous in late antiquity, especially

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 27 May 1998

Sixteen essays in the social and economic history of the ancient world, by a leading historian of classical antiquity, are here brought conveniently together. Three overlapping parts deal with the

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 27 May 2024

"This is the first book to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. It uses new

• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
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• Release Date : 12 July 2017

A nuanced examination that illuminates the Apion estate's economic structure and addresses how the family was able to generate such wealth