Quantifying the Roman Economy Methods and Problems

by Bowman, Alan; Wilson, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780199562596
• ISBN10: 0199562598
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This innovative monograph series reflects a vigorous revival of interest in the ancient economy, focusing on the Mediterranean world under Roman rule (c.100 BC to AD 350). Carefully quantified archaeological and documentary data will be integrated to help ancient historians, economic historians, and archaeologists think about economic behaviour collectively rather than from separate perspectives. The volumes will include a substantial comparative element and thus be interest to historians of other periods and places.

Author Biography

Alan Bowman is Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford. Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, Universiy of Oxford.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. xi
List of Figures	p. xv
List of Tables	p. xviii
Introduction: Approaches
Quantifying the Roman Economy: Integration, Growth, Decline?	p. 3
Urbanization
Urbanization as a Proxy of Demographic and Economic Growth	p. 87
Response to Elio Lo Cascio	p. 107
Field Survey and Demography
Archaeology, Demography, and Roman Economic Growth	p. 115
Peopling the Countryside: Roman Demography in the Albegna Valley and Jerba	p. 127
Peopling Ancient Landscapes: Potential and Problems	p. 163
Agriculture
Quantifying Egyptian Agriculture	p. 177
Response to Alan Bowman	p. 205
Trade
Approaches to Quantifying Roman Trade	p. 213
Approaches to Quantifying Roman Trade: Response	p. 250
A Comment on Andrew Wilson: æApproaches to Quantifying Roman TradeÆ	p. 259
Coinage
Roman Silver Coinage: Mints, Metallurgy, and Production	p. 269
Coinage and Metal Supply	p. 281
Some Numismatic Approaches to Quantifying the Roman Economy	p. 287
Prices, Earnings, and Standards of Living
Earnings and Costs: Living Standards and the Roman Economy	p. 299
How Prosperous were the Romans? Evidence from DiodetianÆs Price Edict (AD 301)	p. 327
New Was of Studying Incomes in the Roman Economy	p. 346
Index	p. 353
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