xix in this book i wish to examine the impact of wealth on the christian churches of the Latin
West in the last centuries of the roman empire and in the first century of the post-imperial …

The orthodox view of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean holds that Greece and Rome
were its only'genuine slave societies', that is, societies in which slave labour contributed …

This book is a study of the long-term historical geography of Asia Minor, from the fourth
century BC to the thirteenth century AD. Using an astonishing breadth of sources, ranging …

In a distant corner of the late antique world, along the Atlantic river valleys of western Iberia,
local elite populations lived through the ebb and flow of empire and kingdoms as historical …

B uilding on Greek and Hellenistic institutions, ancient Rome created the largest slave
society in history.'There are several reasons for defining the Roman Empire as a slave …

The economic success of the Roman Empire was unparalleled in the West until the early
modern period. While favourable natural conditions, capital accumulation, technology and …

In 1958 Conrad and Meyer published a paper in the Journal of Political Economy that
cleared a path for the cliometric revolution and forever changed the way historians and …

There survive from the ruins of Herculaneum parts of an inscription in marble carrying a long
list of individuals with Roman or Romanized names. The various fragments (CIL X 1403a-l+ …

Our conception of the culture and values of the ancient Greco-Roman world is largely based
on texts and material evidence left behind by a small and atypical group of city-dwellers. The …

Late Antiquity may be understood to comprise that postclassical but premedieval period
which started with Diocletian and closed with Phocas, honorand of the last public monument …