Overview
This volume, featuring sixteen contributions from leading Roman historians and archaeologists, sheds new light on approaches to the economic history of urban craftsmen and traders in the Roman world, with a particular emphasis on the imperial period. Combining a wide range of research traditions from all over Europe and utilizing evidence from Italy, the western provinces, and the Greek-speaking east, this edited collection is divided into four sections. It first considers the scholarly history of Roman crafts and trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Germany and the Anglo-Saxon world, and on Italy and France. Chapters discuss how scholarly thinking about Roman craftsmen and traders was influenced by historical and intellectual developments in the modern world, and how different (national) research traditions followed different trajectories throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The second section highlights the economic strategies of craftsmen and traders, examining strategies of long-distance traders and the phenomenon of specialization, and presenting case studies of leather-working and bread-baking. In the third section, the human factor in urban crafts and trade-including the role of apprenticeship, gender, freedmen, and professional associations-is analysed, and the volume ends by exploring the position of crafts in urban space, considering the evidence for artisanal clustering in the archaeological and papyrological record, and providing case studies of the development of commercial landscapes at Aquincum on the Danube and at Sagalassos in Pisidia.
Full Product Details
Author: Andrew Wilson (Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, University of Oxford) ,
Miko Flohr (Lecturer in Ancient History, Lecturer in Ancient History, Leiden University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.20cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.828kg
ISBN: 9780198748489
ISBN 10: 0198748485
Pages: 426
Publication Date: 11 February 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
make[s] some very useful contributions to the field. Dominic Rathbone, Classics for All
Author Information
Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at the University of Oxford. Miko Flohr is a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute for History at Leiden University.
