Overview
- Focuses on those features of the Roman economy that have remained largely underexplored in contemporary scholarship
- Offers a more complete and balanced view of the Roman economic system
- Analyses divergent views on emblematic economic spheres in the Roman economy
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies (PASTAE)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Unusual Actors, Attitudes and Perspectives
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Unconventional Loci of Production
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Distinct Landscapes of Exploitation
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Revising Traditional Narratives
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Keywords
- Animal husbandry and butchery in Roman Spain
- The colony of Lugdunum
- Textile economy in the Veneto region
- Roman metallurgic production in the Veneto region
- The economy of oil production
- Roman salt production in northern Gaul
- Children in the Roman farming economy
- Reconstructing economic rural landscapes
- Roman road stations in Gallia Cisalpina
- Divergent economies in the Roman period
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dimitri Van Limbergen is a researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. His main areas of study are Roman archaeology and economic history.
Adeline Hoffelinck is a researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. She researches the transformation of commercial infrastructure in Roman cities during their urbanization.
Devi Taelman is a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is interested in the study of the economy of ornamental stones used in antiquity, and in human-environment interactions in Roman Antiquity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reframing the Roman Economy
Book Subtitle: New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices
Editors: Dimitri Van Limbergen, Adeline Hoffelinck, Devi Taelman
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06281-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06280-3Published: 19 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06283-4Published: 19 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06281-0Published: 17 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2752-3292
Series E-ISSN: 2752-3306
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 406
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, History of Ancient Europe, Archaeology