Reframing the Roman Economy: New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices Van Limbergen Dimitri
Reframing the Roman Economy: New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices Van Limbergen Dimitri This book focuses on those features of the Roman economy that are less traceable in text and…
Specifikacia Reframing the Roman Economy: New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices Van Limbergen Dimitri
Reframing the Roman Economy: New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices Van Limbergen Dimitri
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. 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. 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.
To this purpose, the book brings together a select group of leading scholars and promising early career researchers in archaeology and