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Agrarian change in late antiquity : gold, labour, and aristocratic dominance
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Agrarian change in late antiquity : gold, labour, and aristocratic dominance

Author: Jairus Banaji
Publisher: Oxford, [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Series: Oxford classical monographs.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The economy of the late antique Mediterranean is largely seen through the prism of Weber's influential essay of 1896. Rejecting that orthodoxy, this book argues that the late empire saw substantial economic and social change, propelled by the powerful stimulus of a stable gold coinage that circulated widely. In successive chapters Dr Banaji adduces fresh evidence for the prosperity of the late Roman countryside,
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jairus Banaji
ISBN: 0199244405 9780199244409
OCLC Number: 45806466
Description: xvii, 286 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. The Rural Landscape of the Late Empire --
2. Weber, Mickwitz, and the Economic Characterization of Late Antiquity --
3. The Monetary Economy of the Late Empire and its Social Presuppositions --
4. Existing Accounts of the Byzantine Large Estate --
5. The Changing Balance of Rural Power AD 200-400 --
6. A Late Antique Aristocracy --
7. Estates --
8. Wage Labour and the Peasantry --
9. Conclusion --
App. 1. Tables 1-12 --
App. 2. CJ X. 27.2.1-9: A Translation --
App. 3. The Relative Cohesion of Large Estates: Notes on the Topography of the Fayum in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries.
Series Title: Oxford classical monographs.
Responsibility: Jairus Banaji.
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