Urban Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World
Series: Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 June 2020
- ISBN 9780198852902
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 232x155x21 mm
- Weight 668 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 75 black and white illustrations 67
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Short description:
This edited collection, featuring sixteen contributions from leading Roman historians and archaeologists, sheds new light on approaches to the economic history of urban craftsmen and traders in the Roman world.
MoreLong description:
This volume, featuring sixteen contributions from leading Roman historians and archaeologists, sheds new light on approaches to the economic history of urban craftsmen and traders in the Roman world, with a particular emphasis on the imperial period. Combining a wide range of research traditions from all over Europe and utilizing evidence from Italy, the western provinces, and the Greek-speaking east, this edited collection is divided into four parts. It first considers the scholarly history of Roman crafts and trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Germany and the Anglo-Saxon world, and on Italy and France. Chapters discuss how scholarly thinking about Roman craftsmen and traders was influenced by historical and intellectual developments in the modern world, and how different (national) research traditions followed different trajectories throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The second part highlights the economic strategies of craftsmen and traders, examining strategies of long-distance traders and the phenomenon of specialization, and presenting case studies of leather-working and bread-baking. In the third part, the human factor in urban crafts and trade--including the role of apprenticeship, gender, freedmen, and professional associations--is analysed, and the volume ends by exploring the position of crafts in urban space, considering the evidence for artisanal clustering in the archaeological and papyrological record, and providing case studies of the development of commercial landscapes at Aquincum on the Danube and at Sagalassos in Pisidia.
Review from previous edition This volume is itself a rich emporium with many expert shopkeepers manning individual tabernae organized into easily navigated rows. ... The broad methodological and interdisciplinary approaches highlighted in this volume make it a welcome addition to the growing number of works on the Roman economy.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Approaches
Roman Craftsmen and Traders: Towards an Intellectual History
Twentieth Century Italian Research on Craftsmen, Traders, and their Professional Organizations in the Roman World
The Archaeology of Ancient Urban Workshops: A French Approach?
Part II: Strategies
Mercantile Specialization and Trading Communities: Economic Strategies in Roman Maritime Trade
Driving Forces for Specialization: Market, Location Factors, Productivity Improvements
Fashionable Footwear: Craftsmen and Consumers in the North-West Provinces of the Roman Empire
Contextualizing the Operational Sequence: Pompeian Bakeries as a Case Study
Part III: People
Disciplina, patrocinium, nomen: The Benefits of Apprenticeship in the Roman World
Women, Trade, and Production in the Urban Centres of Roman Italy
Freedmen and Agency in Roman Business
The Social Organization of Commerce and Crafts in Ancient Arles: Heterogeneity, Hierarchy, and Patronage
Hierapolis and its Professional Associations: A Comparative Analysis
Part IV: Space
Working Together: Clusters of Artisans in the Roman City
Spatial Concentration and Dispersal of Roman Textile Crafts
Industry and Commerce in the City of Aquincum
The Potters of Ancient Sagalassos Revisited
Index
