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Author Banaji, Jairus, 1947-

Title Agrarian change in late antiquity : gold, labour, and aristocratic dominance / Jairus Banaji
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 311 pages)
Series Oxford classical monographs
Oxford classical monographs.
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
Notes Previous edition: 2001
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-302) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Land reform -- Byzantine Empire
Land tenure -- Byzantine Empire
Land tenure -- Rome
Monetary policy -- Byzantine Empire
HISTORY -- Ancient.
Economic history
Land reform
Land tenure
Monetary policy
Rural conditions
Social conditions
SUBJECT Byzantine Empire -- Economic conditions
Byzantine Empire -- Rural conditions
Byzantine Empire -- Social conditions
Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115160
Subject Byzantine Empire
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191529573
0191529575