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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453384203321

Autore

Banaji Jairus <1947->

Titolo

Agrarian change in late antiquity [[electronic resource] ] : gold, labour, and aristocratic dominance / / Jairus Banaji

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [U.K.] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2001

ISBN

1-281-34609-8

0-19-152957-5

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

Oxford classical monographs

Disciplina

937

Soggetti

Land tenure - Rome

Land tenure - Byzantine Empire

Administration of estates - Rome

Administration of estates - Byzantine Empire

Electronic books.

Rome History Empire, 284-476

Rome Economic conditions 30 B.C.-476 A.D

Byzantine Empire History To 527

Byzantine Empire Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 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; Appendix 1: Tables 1-12; Appendix 2: CJ X. 27.2.1-9: A Translation

Appendix 3: The Relative Cohesion of Large Estates: Notes on the Topography of the Fayum in the Sixth and Seventh CenturiesAppendix 4: A Brief Update on the Aristocracy; Appendix 5: Chris Wickham and the End of Late Antiquity; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; S; T; V; Z; Bibliography; Further Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z



Sommario/riassunto

In a critique of Max Weber's influential ideas about the Mediterranean region in late antiquity, Jairus Banaji shows that the fourth to seventh centuries were in fact a period of major social and economic change, bound up with an expanding circulation of gold.