Reframing the Roman Economy: New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031062803)

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.

Author: Dimitri Van Limbergen
ISBN-10: 3031062809
ISBN-13: 9783031062803
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2022
Pages: 406
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.94d