Jairus Banaji

Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity

Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 158mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780199226030
• ISBN-10: 0199226032
• Artikelnr.: 22822682

Autorenporträt

Jairus Banaji is a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Inhaltsangabe

* 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