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This volume, featuring sixteen contributions from leading Roman historians and archaeologists, sheds new light on approaches to the economic history of urban craftsmen and traders in the Roman world, with a particular emphasis on the imperial period. Combining a wide range of research traditions from all over Europe and utilizing evidence from Italy, the western provinces, and the Greek-speaking east, this edited collection is divided into four parts. It first considers the scholarly history of Roman crafts and trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Germany and the Anglo-Saxon world, and on Italy and France. Chapters discuss how scholarly thinking about Roman craftsmen and traders was influenced by historical and intellectual developments in the modern world, and how different (national) research traditions followed different trajectories throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The second part highlights the economic strategies of craftsmen and traders, examining strategies of long-distance traders and the phenomenon of specialization, and presenting case studies of leather-working and bread-baking. In the third part, the human factor in urban crafts and trade--including the role of apprenticeship, gender, freedmen, and professional associations--is analysed, and the volume ends by exploring the position of crafts in urban space, considering the evidence for artisanal clustering in the archaeological and papyrological record, and providing case studies of the development of commercial landscapes at Aquincum on the Danube and at Sagalassos in Pisidia.
Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at the University of Oxford.Miko Flohr is a Lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University.
IntroductionPart I: Approaches1: Miko Flohr and Andrew Wilson: Roman Craftsmen and Traders: Towards an Intellectual History2: Carla Salvaterra and Alessandro Cristofori: Twentieth Century Italian Research on Craftsmen, Traders, and their Professional Organizations in the Roman World3: Jean-Pierre Brun: The Archaeology of Ancient Urban Workshops: A French Approach?Part II: Strategies4: Candace Rice: Mercantile Specialization and Trading Communities: Economic Strategies in Roman Maritime Trade5: Kai Ruffing: Driving Forces for Specialization: Market, Location Factors, Productivity Improvements6: Carol van Driel-Murray: Fashionable Footwear: Craftsmen and Consumers in the North-West Provinces of the Roman Empire7: Nicolas Monteix: Contextualizing the Operational Sequence: Pompeian Bakeries as a Case StudyPart III: People8: Christel Freu: Disciplina, patrocinium, nomen: The Benefits of Apprenticeship in the Roman World9: Lena Larsson Lovén: Women, Trade, and Production in the Urban Centres of Roman Italy10: Wim Broekaert: Freedmen and Agency in Roman Business11: Nicolas Tran: The Social Organization of Commerce and Crafts in Ancient Arles: Heterogeneity, Hierarchy, and Patronage12: Ilias Arnaoutoglou: Hierapolis and its Professional Associations: A Comparative AnalysisPart IV: Space13: Penelope Goodman: Working Together: Clusters of Artisans in the Roman City14: Kerstin Dross-Krüpe: Spatial Concentration and Dispersal of Roman Textile Crafts15: Orsolya Láng: Industry and Commerce in the City of Aquincum16: Jeroen Poblome: The Potters of Ancient Sagalassos RevisitedIndex
Review from previous edition This volume is itself a rich emporium with many expert shopkeepers manning individual tabernae organized into easily navigated rows. ... The broad methodological and interdisciplinary approaches highlighted in this volume make it a welcome addition to the growing number of works on the Roman economy.
Katherine Blouin, University of Toronto) Blouin, Katherine (Associate Professor in Greek and Roman History, Associate Professor in Greek and Roman History