Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Banaji, Jairus, 1947-

Title Agrarian change in late antiquity : gold, labour, and aristocratic dominance / Jairus Banaji.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xvii, 311 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford classical monographs
Oxford classical monographs.
Note Previous edition: 2001.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-302) and index.
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.
Summary 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. - ;The economy of the late antique Mediterranean is still largely seen through the prism of Weber's influential essay of 1896. Rejecting that orthodoxy, Jairus Banaji argues that the late empire saw substantial economic and social change, propelled by the powerful stimulus of a stable gold coinage that circulated widely. In successive ch.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Land reform -- Byzantine Empire.
Land reform.
Byzantine Empire.
Land tenure -- Byzantine Empire.
Land tenure.
Land tenure -- Rome.
Monetary policy -- Byzantine Empire.
Monetary policy.
Byzantine Empire -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Byzantine Empire -- Rural conditions.
Rural conditions.
Byzantine Empire -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476.
Chronological Term 284-476
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Banaji, Jairus, 1947- Agrarian change in late antiquity. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780199226030 0199226032 (OCoLC)77012157
ISBN 9780191529573 (electronic book)
0191529575 (electronic book)