Fairs and Markets in the Roman Empire : Economic and Social Aspects of Periodic Trade in a Pre-Industrial Society.

Periodic markets are institutions of crucial importance in all pre-industrial economies. Yet the subject has been given little atten-tion by Roman historians. The aim of this book is to remedy this state of affairs through an empire-wide study of annual, bi-annual, monthly and 'weekly' mar...

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Autor principal: de Ligt, Luuk
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Boston : BRILL, 1993.
Col·lecció:Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology Ser.
Accés en línia:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3537923
Taula de continguts:
  • Intro
  • FAIRS AND MARKETS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
  • Copyright
  • PREFACE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • CONTENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • I PERIODIC MARKETS IN COMPLEX PRE-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
  • 1. Periodic markets: general concepts and theories
  • 2. High-frequency periodic markets: functions and rationale
  • 3. Three theories of market development
  • 4. Fairs in complex pre-industrial societies
  • 5. Some previous research on periodic markets in Antiquity
  • II AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ANCIENT EVIDENCE
  • l. Panêgyris
  • 2. Agora and cognates
  • 3. Agoranomoi and panêgyriarchai
  • 4. Ateleia
  • 5. Mercatus
  • 6. Nundinae
  • 7. Verbal clues and their value: conclusions
  • III LOCAL, REGIONAL AND INTERREGIONAL FAIRS
  • 1. Fairs in the written sources: general evidence
  • 2. Fairs in the western half of the Empire
  • 3. Fairs in the eastern provinces I: Greece and Asia Minor
  • 4. Fairs in the eastern provinces II: Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia
  • 5. Fairs in the Roman Empire: preliminary conclusions
  • 6. Local fairs
  • 7. Regional fairs
  • 8. Interregional fairs
  • 9. Roman fairs and the wider economy
  • IV PERIODIC MARKETS AND THE RURAL ECONOMY
  • 1. Market-involved peasants and periodic markets
  • 2. Short-cycle periodic markets in Italy
  • 3. Shortcycle periodic markets in the western provinces
  • 4. The eastern provinces I: Greece and Asia Minor
  • 5. The eastern provinces II: the Middle East
  • 6. Peasants and periodic markets: preliminary conclusions
  • 7. Horizontal trade function
  • 8. Internal trade functions
  • 9. Central place functions
  • 10. Conclusions and a comparative perspective
  • V DOMANIAL MARKETS: MATERIAL BENEFITS AND SOCIAL CONTROL
  • 1. Domanial markets in the literary and epigraphical sources
  • 2. Estates and periodic markets: preliminary remarks
  • 3. Domanial markets as sources of revenue
  • 4. Domanial markets and 'home farms'
  • 5. Euergetism, 'opportunity costs' and rural power relations
  • 6. Estate isolation: inclusion or exclusion?
  • 7. Domanial markets outside Roman North Africa
  • VI URBAN COMMUNITIES AND PERIODIC MARKETS
  • 1. Conflicting interests: the nundinae of L. Bellicius Sollers
  • 2. Periodic markets, urban craftsmen and municipal taxes
  • 3. Periodic markets and the urban food supply
  • 4. Urban market policies: the social and political background
  • 5. Towns and festival-connected markets
  • 6. The purposes of festive ateleia
  • 7. Were Roman cities 'solar central places'?
  • APPENDICES
  • APPENDIX I: FAIRS AND ACCESSORY FESTAL MARKETS DURING THE CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC PERIODS
  • APPENDIX II: FAIRS AND ACCESSORY FESTAL MARKETS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX LOCORUM
  • GENERAL INDEX

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