Jairus Banaji

Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity (eBook, PDF)

Selected Essays

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays, by leading historian Jairus Banaji, provides a stimulating rebuttal to the prevailing minimalism in late antique studies. Together, they strike a balance between the wide lens and more specialised discussion, expanding on the perspective and argumentation laid out in an earlier book, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity (2001). Successive chapters discuss the scale of the late Roman gold currency, the economic nature of the aristocracy, the importance of trade, relations between the state and the ruling class, and the problem of continuity into the early Middle Ages. A substantial introduction pulls together the themes of the book into a coherent synopsis, while the preface clarifies the broad aims behind the study. The book as a whole deploys a wide range of sources in various languages and is intended for ancient historians, students of late antiquity, and economic historians more generally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316485033
• Artikelnr.: 44364088

Autorenporträt

Jairus Banaji is Research Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published on a wide range of subjects and very different periods, and his last book Theory as History (2010) won the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Introductory essay: 1. Mass production, monetary economy and the
commercial vitality of the Mediterranean; Part I. Mapping the Late Antique
Economy: 2. Mickwitz's modernism: the writings of 1932-6; 3. State and
aristocracy in the economic evolution of the Late Empire; 4. The economic
trajectories of late antiquity; Part II. Money Circulation (Rules,
Rhythms): 5. Discounts, weight standards and the exchange rate between gold
and copper; 6. Precious metal coinages and monetary expansion in late
antiquity; Part III. Aristocracies and Estates: 7. Aristocracies,
peasantries and the framing of the early Middle Ages: 8. Late antique
aristocracies: the case of Iran; Part IV. Beyond the Mediterranean and Late
Antiquity: 9. Late antique legacies and Muslim economic expansion; 10.
'Regions that look seaward' - changing fortunes, submerged histories, and
the slow capitalism of the sea.