KIRKE
Collection of Internet Sources for Classical Philology, Ancient History, Pre- and Early History, Byzantine Studies, Medieval and Neo-Latin Philology
Publisher:
Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford: Oxford, UK
Format:
application/pdf|text/html
Abstract:
"This research programme addresses the fundamentals of the Roman imperial economy and will provide a detailed analysis of major economic activities (agriculture, trade, commerce, mining), utilising quantifiable bodies of artefactual and documentary evidence and placing them in the broader structural context of regional variation, distribution, size and nature of markets, supply and demand.The chronological parameters are 100 BC to AD 300, covering the period of greatest imperial expansion and economic growth (to c.AD 200), followed by a century conventionally perceived as one of contraction or decline. Geographically, we will draw on material selected from all over the Mediterranean world: Egypt, north Africa, Spain and Italy will be our most fruitful sources of data, which will be gleaned almost entirely from published archaeological and documentary sources."
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