Reframing the roman economy : new perspectives on habitual economic practices

Reframing the roman economy : new perspectives on habitual economic practices / Dimitri Van Limbergen, Adeline Hoffelinck, Devi Taelman, editors.

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...

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Other Authors: Limbergen, Dimitri van (Editor), Hoffelinck, Adeline (Editor), Taelman, Devi (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Series:Palgrave studies in ancient economies.
Subjects:
European history.
Archaeology.
Economic history.
History > Europe > General.
Social Science > Archaeology.
Business & Economics > Economic History.
Economic history
Rome > Economic conditions.
Rome (Empire)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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