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  title info:
    title: Agrarian change in late antiquity
  title info:
    sub title: gold, labour, and aristocratic dominance
  title info: title
  name:
    name part: Banaji, Jairus
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Jairus Banaji
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: Oxford, [U.K.],New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2001
    date issued: 9999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: und
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 286 p.
    extent: 24 cm
  abstract: The 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 late Roman countryside, the expanding circulation of gold, the restructuring of agrarian élites, and the extensive use of paid labour, above all in the period spanning the fifth to seventh centuries. The papyrological evidence is scrutinized in detail to show that a key development entailed the rise of a new aristocracy whose estates were immune to the devastating fragmentation of partible inheritance, extensively irrigated, and responsive to market opportunities. A concluding chapter defines the more general issue raised by the aristocracy's involvement in the monetary and business economy of the period.
  note: Jairus Banaji
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and index
  subject:
    topic: Land tenure; Land tenure; Administration of estates; Administration of estates
  classification: 937
  classification: J103
  identifier: 0199244405
  identifier: 9780199244409
  record info:
    record creation date: 210423
    record identifier: TVU_13092