Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during Late Antiquity

Economy and Exchange in the East Mediterranean during Late Antiquity

Author: Sean A. Kingsley

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2015-05-01

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1785700332

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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 papers in this volume demonstrate this complexity and prosperity, examining several types of product and how the economy evolved over time. Contents: New Rome, new theories on Inter-regional exchange: East Mediterranean economy in Late Antiquity ( Sean Kingsley and Michael Decker ); Urban Economies of Late Antique Cyrenaica ( Andrew Wilson ); The economic impact of the Palestinian wine trade in Late Antiquity ( Sean Kingsley ); Food for an empire: wine and oil production in North Syria ( Michael Decker ); Beyond the amphora: non-ceramic evidence for Late Antique industry and trade ( Marlia Mundell Mango ); The economy of Late Antique Cyprus ( Tassos Papacostas ); LR2: a container for the military annona on the Danubian border? ( Olga Karagiorgou ); Specialization, trade and prosperity: an overview of the economy of the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean ( Bryan Ward-Perkins ).


Local Economies?

Local Economies?

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 652

ISBN-13: 9004309780

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The Roman economy was operated significantly above subsistence level, with production being stimulated by both taxation and trade. Some regions became wealthy on the basis of exporting low-value agricultural products across the Mediterranean. In contrast, it has usually been assumed that the high costs of land transport kept inland regions relatively poor. This volume challenges these assumptions by presenting new research on production and exchange within inland regions. The papers, supported by detailed bibliographic essays, range from Britain to Jordan. They reveal robust agricultural economies in many interior regions. Here, some wealth did come from high value products, which could defy transport costs. However, ceramics also indicate local exchange systems, capable of generating wealth without being integrated into inter-regional trading networks. The role of the State in generating production and exchange is visible, but often co-existed with local market systems. Contributors are Alyssa A. Bandow, Fanny Bessard, Michel Bonifay, Kim Bowes, Stefano Costa, Jeremy Evans, Elizabeth Fentress, Piroska Hárshegyi, Adam Izdebski, Luke Lavan, Tamara Lewit, Phil Mills, Katalin Ottományi, Peter Sarris, Emanuele Vaccaro, Agnès Vokaer, Mark Whittow and Andrea Zerbini.


Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian

Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian

Author: Peter Sarris

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-09-28

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 113945904X

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The reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian (527–65) stands out in late Roman and medieval history. Justinian re-conquered far-flung territories from the barbarians, overhauled the Empire's administrative framework and codified for posterity the inherited tradition of Roman law. This work represents a modern study in English of the social and economic history of the Eastern Roman Empire in the reign of the Emperor Justinian. Drawing upon papyrological, numismatic, legal, literary and archaeological evidence, the study seeks to reconstruct the emergent nature of relations between landowners and peasants, and aristocrats and emperors in the late antique Eastern Empire. It provides a social and economic context in which to situate the Emperor Justinian's mid-sixth-century reform programme, and questions the implications of the Eastern Empire's pattern of social and economic development under Justinian for its subsequent, post-Justinianic history.


Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean

Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean

Author: Anna Collar

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-07-13

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 9004428690

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In Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean, Anna Collar and Troels Myrup Kristensen bring together diverse scholarship to explore the socioeconomic dynamics of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage from archaic Greece to Late Antiquity, the Greek mainland to Egypt and the Near East. This broad chronological and geographical canvas demonstrates how our modern concepts of religion and economy were entangled in the ancient world. By taking material culture as a starting point, the volume examines the ways that landscapes, architecture, and objects shaped the pilgrim’s experiences, and the manifold ways in which economy, belief and ritual behaviour intertwined, specifically through the processes and practices that were part of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage over the course of more than 1,500 years.


Roman Seas

Roman Seas

Author: Justin Leidwanger

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0190083654

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Drawing together maritime landscape studies and network analysis, this book offers an archaeological exploration of seaborne economy and connectivity across the Roman eastern Mediterranean, where the material record of shipwrecks and ports reveals multiple evolving regional and interregional systems of interaction.


Roman and Late Antique Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean

Roman and Late Antique Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean

Author: Emlyn K. Dodd

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-01-23

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1789694035

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Wine was an ever-present commodity that permeated the Mediterranean throughout antiquity. This book analyses the viticulture of two settlements, Antiochia ad Cragum and Delos, using results stemming from surface survey and excavation to assess their potential integration within the now well-known agricultural boom of the 5th-7th centuries AD.


Ancient West and East

Ancient West and East

Author: Gocha Tsetskhladze

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9004138005

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Annotation. Ancient West & East is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of the history and archaeology of the periphery of the Graeco-Roman world, concentrating on local societies and cultures and their interaction with the Graeco-Roman, Near Eastern and early Byzantine worlds.


The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity

The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity

Author: Averil Cameron

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-04-29

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1136673067

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This book provides both a detailed introduction to the vivid and exciting period of `late antiquity' and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Empire.


Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology

Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology

Author: Luke A. Lavan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9789004125674

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An exploration of theoretical frameworks, methodology and field practice suited to the late antique Mediterranean. Broad themes such as long-term change, topography, the economy and social life are covered, but in terms of the issues and problems being tackled by scholars of late antiquity.