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UNINA9910779980703321 |
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Autore |
Swain Simon |
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Titolo |
Economy, family, and society from Rome to Islam : a critical edition, English translation, and study of Bryson's Management of the estate / / Simon Swain [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-107-23635-5 |
1-107-35764-0 |
1-107-34908-7 |
1-107-61513-5 |
1-107-34802-1 |
1-107-34552-9 |
1-139-17807-5 |
1-107-34177-9 |
1-107-34427-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 573 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Elite (Social sciences) - Rome |
Rome Social conditions Early works to 1800 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Bryson's Management of the estate : English translation -- Background. Introduction ; Text and transmission -- Economy. Property ; Slaves -- Family. The wife ; The boy -- Text and translations of Bryson. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Bryson's Management of the Estate (Oikonomikos Logos) offers advice on the key private concerns of the Roman elite: getting rich, managing slaves, love and marriage, bringing up children. This estate owner is a farmer and a merchant, making his money through good and effective business. His wife is co-owner of the estate and their love promotes material prosperity. Their child needs twenty-four hour supervision in 'all his affairs'. Bryson's book was almost certainly written in the mid-first century AD, but survives mainly in Arabic. It had a profound effect on Islamic thinking on the economy and on marriage, but is virtually |
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