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Chapter Nine. Jones and the late Roman Economy
, 2008 This chapter is on Jones and the late Roman economy and it explains why his view of it was so pessimistic in his Later Roman Empire. Before judging as pessimistic Jones' minimalist assessment of late Roman commerce, one needs to view it in a broader context, and be aware of how he described the role of trade in earlier Roman times. In his 1959 article,
Bryan Ward‐Perkins
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Coins and the Late Roman Economy
Late Antique Archaeology, 2003 Coins provide a source of information on the Roman economy which is not available in the written sources. They can be studied either as the products of the imperial administration—coins as struck, or as a reflection of coin use—coins as found. Coins as struck are well described in standard works of reference and only a few points of caution need to be ...
Richard J. Reece
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The Annual of the British School at Athens, 2016 Modern perceptions of the ancient Piraeus have been monopolised by the urban image and function of the port as the naval stronghold of Classical Athens. Existing scholarship so far has tended to consider the post-Classical centuries, especially the era following the sack of the port in 86bcby the Romans, as a period of decline.
Dimitris Grigoropoulos
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Economy and Power in Late Roman Britain
, 2015 This chapter reviews the relationship between power and economics in fourth-century Britain. It argues that the Roman past has often been intuitively understood as rational and that its economics can be easily characterized as ‘proto-capitalist’. The Roman period was, however, both complex and irrational.
James Gerrard
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External Contacts and the Economy of Late Roman and Post-Roman Britain. Edited by K. R. D
Archaeological Journal, 1998 (1998). External Contacts and the Economy of Late Roman and Post-Roman Britain. Edited by K. R. Dark. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 155, No. 1, pp. 402-404.
Chris Loveluck
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, 2015 AbstractThis essay examines the role of state regulation, markets, and social structures in shaping the development of the Roman economy in Late Antiquity. It argues that the recent tendency amongst ancient historians to emphasise the role of markets, represents a welcome corrective to earlier primitivist tendencies.
Peter Sarris
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Villas, Farms and the Late Roman Rural Economy (third to fifth centuries AD)
, 2004 A reprint with updated material of the authorAEs 1991 research into villas and farms and rural economy in the Late Roman era (Britain, Gaul, Italy, Spain and Gallia Belgica in the 3rd to 5th centuries AD). The volume challenges the assumption that the period studied was one of dramatic decline, and analyses the archaeological evidence in a wide-ranging
Tamara Lewit
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Polarising and Integrating the Late Roman Economy: the Role of Late Roman Amphorae 1—7
, 2004 Roberta Tomber
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External Contacts and the Economy of Late Roman Britain
Britannia, 1998 Richard Reece, K. R. Dark, M. E. Jones
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