Local economies? : : production and exchange of inland regions in late antiquity / / edited by Luke Lavan.

• Superior document: Late antique archaeology ; v. 10
• TeilnehmendeR: Lavan, Luke.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill.; c2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Hardback ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Late antique archaeology.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (652 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

The Roman economy was operated significantly above subsistence level, with production being stimulated by both taxation and trade. Some regions became wealthy on the basis of exporting low-value agricultural products across the Mediterranean. In contrast, it has usually been assumed that the high costs of land transport kept inland regions relatively poor. This volume challenges these assumptions by presenting new research on production and exchange within inland regions. The papers, supported by detailed bibliographic essays, range from Britain to Jordan. They reveal robust agricultural economies in many interior regions. Here, some wealth did come from high value products, which could defy transport costs. However, ceramics also indicate local exchange systems, capable of generating wealth without being integrated into inter-regional trading networks. The role of the State in generating production and exchange is visible, but often co-existed with local market systems. Contributors are Alyssa A. Bandow, Fanny Bessard, Michel Bonifay, Kim Bowes, Stefano Costa, Jeremy Evans, Elizabeth Fentress, Piroska Hárshegyi, Adam Izdebski, Luke Lavan, Tamara Lewit, Phil Mills, Katalin Ottományi, Peter Sarris, Emanuele Vaccaro, Agnès Vokaer, Mark Whittow and Andrea Zerbini.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Luke Lavan -- Local Economies in Late Antiquity? Some Thoughts / Luke Lavan -- The Late Antique Economy: Approaches, Methods and Conceptual Issues / Alyssa A. Bandow -- The Late Antique Economy: Regional Surveys / Andrea Zerbini -- The Late Antique Economy: Primary and Secondary Production / Andrea Zerbini -- The Late Antique Economy: Infrastructures of Transport and Retail / Alyssa A. Bandow -- The Late Antique Economy: Ceramics and Trade / Stefano Costa -- How Much Trade was Local, Regional and Inter-Regional? A Comparative Perspective on the Late Antique Economy / Mark Whittow -- Integration and Disintegration in the Late Roman Economy: The Role Of Markets, Emperors, and Aristocrats / Peter Sarris -- Villas, Taxes and Trade in Fourth Century Hispania / Kim Bowes -- The Lessons of Gaulish Sigillata and Other Finewares / Tamara Lewit -- Patterning the Late Antique Economies of Inland Sicily in a Mediterranean Context / Emanuele Vaccaro -- Diana Veteranorum and the Dynamics of an Inland Economy / Elizabeth Fentress -- The Economic Expansion of the Anatolian Countryside in Late Antiquity: The Coast Versus Inland Regions / Adam Izdebski -- The Urban Economy in Southern Inland Greater Syria from the Seventh Century to the End of the Umayyads / Fanny Bessard -- Balancing the Scales: Romano-British Pottery in Early Late Antiquity / Jeremy Evans -- The Supply and Distribution of Ceramic Building Material in Roman Britain / Phil Mills -- Imported and Local Pottery in Late Roman Pannonia / Piroska Hárshegyi and Katalin Ottományi -- Africa: Patterns of Consumption in Coastal Regions Versus Inland Regions. The Ceramic Evidence (300–700 A.D.) / Michel Bonifay -- Pottery Production and Exchange in Late Antique Syria (Fourth-Eighth Century A.D.). A Study of Some Imported and Local Wares / Agnès Vokaer -- Abstracts in French / Luke Lavan -- Indices / Aoife Fitzgerald -- Late Antique Archaeology / Luke Lavan.