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, Adeline Hoffelinck, Devi Taelman
- | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- | Publication Date: Nov 19, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 431 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 3031062809
- | ISBN-13: 9783031062803
