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De luxuria propagata romana aetate. Roman luxury in its many forms focuses on luxonomics, or the economy of luxury in Roman times, and how its study is an element that is essential to understanding the history of the period. This volume brings together the contributions of leading experts in the study of luxury to present the full range of perspectives on the production and consumption of luxury items and, moreover, from the variety of approaches offered by Ancient History. The book is organised in chronological order, and the evolution of the luxury economy is divided into areas of consumption, production, and criticism. The analytical focus on the interaction between the notions of need and desire suggests that the historical development of luxury and business in Rome can be divided into five categories: houses, clothing, jewellery, food, and leisure.

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– Irene Mañas Romero ; Space and consumption: luxury in Hadrian’s Villa – Rosario Rovira Guardiola ; El jardín romano y el estatus social, una simbiosis indisoluble – Chiara Romano ; El mobiliario doméstico en bronce de la casa romana. Lujo y practicidad – Rocío Manuela Cuadra Rubio ; Presenze femminili tra gli operatori del lusso: le testimonianze epigrafiche – Alfredo Buonopane ; «Cupiditas artificii, non argenti». L’arte dei caelatores in Roma tra epigrafia e letteratura – Giovanna Di Giacomo ; Indumenta vetita. Sentido y alcance de las disposiciones restrictivas de la indumentaria suntuaria en la Roma imperial – F. Javier Casinos Mora ; La crítica al lujo en la Historia Augusta – Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez ; Riqueza y ostentación eclesiásticas en la Roma tardoantigua – Pere Maymó i Capdevila ; ¿Lujo o casos excepcionales? Longovicium (Lanchester, Durham) y sus tábulas ansatas de oro – David Martínez-Chico ; Vinum Mulsum. La recuperación experimental del vino romano más exclusive – Antonio Aguilera Martín, Miquel Sunyer Sunyer, Josep Maria Vaquer Llop, Juana Gómez Sánchez"

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Lluis Pons Pujol is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Barcelona. The main subject of his research focuses on the province of Mauritania Tingitana in a broad sense (economics, factual history, Roman administration, historiography). Another of his research lines is the study of the historiography of Roman Africa. Recently he has also dealt with Roman gardens and the concept of luxury in Rome. Reference publication: Pons Pujol, Ll. 2009. La economia de la Mauretania Tingitana (s. I-III d. C.): aceite, vino y salazones (Instrumenta 34). Barcelona: Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona. He has been a member of CEIPAC since 1993 and UBICS since 2017. Jordi Perez Gonzalez is a Juan de la Cierva-Formacion postdoctoral researcher at the University of Girona. He received his doctorate from the University of Barcelona as well as the Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2017). He has carried out research stays at the universities of Rome La Sapienza (2017, 2022), Verona (2018), and Macerata (2019/20), financed by the European Commission and by the Ministerio de Universidades ('Jose Castillejo'). His most recent research focuses on the consumption of luxuries among the Roman elite, the distribution of food and the epigraphy of its containers, in addition to methodological innovations in Humanities studies. Among his publications, of note is the book awarded with the Geza Alfoeldy 2021 prize Sumptuary Specialists and Consumer Elites in Rome's world order (coleccion Instrumenta), The Romans before adversity (with J.M. Bermudez -Aracne editrice), and the edition, together with J. Remesal, in this series - Access Archaeology, Arqueologia y Techne. Metodos formales, nuevos enfoques / Archaeology and Techne. Formal methods, new approaches, and together with Filipe N. Silva and J.M. Bermudez from Historia Antigua en dialogo. Humanidades Digitales e innovaciones metodologicas.

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