1. Agrarian change in late antiquity : Gold, labour and aristocratic dominance / Jairus Nanaji
Éditeur : Oxford University Press, 2001
he economy of the late antique Mediterranean is still largely seen through the prism of Weber's influential essay of 1896. Rejecting that orthodoxy, Jairus Banaji argues that the late empire saw substantial economic and social change, propelled by the powerful stimulus of a stable gold coinage that circulated widely. In successive chapters Banaji adduces fresh evidence for the prosperity of the l...(Lire la suite)