The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, 395-700 AD

LATE ROMAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY revenue for the state, and the scheme also involved elaborate matching of need and supply. The ma ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY other. This approach is inherent in Wickham’s magisterial work. By the end of the sixt ...

LATE ROMAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY had rights which can look very like the rights of owner over slave. It was for instance possible ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY possible variations at the level of actual arrangements between landlord and tenant; l ...

LATE ROMAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY occurred, though it seems to have happened later in the west. Under Anas- tasius (491–518) it was ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY The classes of late antique society The senatorial class of the west had been a major ...

LATE ROMAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY times. Landlords were certainly involved in production, and engaged in long- distance transport; ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY or even enhanced. In such circumstances, the Christianization, and in particu- lar the ...

LATE ROMAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY selection of offi cials. In 439 an oath was exacted from all those appointed to provincial govern ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY is weak, where the social bonds are loose or where there is change and competi- tion f ...

LATE ROMAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY right, so that they are not allowed to leave the places by whose crops they are nurtured or deser ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY over the whole period – from 434 annual payments of gold agreed by Rome to the Huns st ...

LATE ROMAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY and bread doles for the purpose.^52 The grain came largely though not only, from North Africa and ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY The gold solidus introduced in the early fourth century remained standard for centurie ...

LATE ROMAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY which suited a different kind of social and economic life. Public buildings were not repaired, or ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY system can be located in the later sixth to early seventh centuries, i.e., after the J ...

LATE ROMAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY unacknowledged assumptions about the late Roman system. The current vogue for comparing the end o ...

5 JUSTINIAN AND RECONQUEST The reign of Justinian (527–65) deserves treatment in its own right, as one of the most important and ...

JUSTINIAN AND RECONQUEST (541–2). His reign saw a last fl owering of Greek and Latin literary composi- tion, within an administr ...

THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD IN LATE ANTIQUITY especially in matters of marriage and family. Novel 131 (545) also gave to ecclesiasti ...