Urban craftsmen and traders in the Roman world PDF
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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,18/1/2016,SPi OXFORD STUDIES ON THE ROMAN ECONOMY GeneralEditors ALAN BOWMAN ANDREW WILSON OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,18/1/2016,SPi OXFORD STUDIES ON THE ROMAN ECONOMY This innovative monograph series reflects a vigorous revival of interest in the ancient economy, focusing on the Mediterranean world under Romanrule(c.100BCtoAD350).Carefullyquantifiedarchaeologicaland documentary data are integrated to help ancient historians, economic historians,andarchaeologiststhinkabouteconomicbehaviourcollectively ratherthanfromseparateperspectives.Thevolumesincludeasubstantial comparative element and thus will be of interest to historians of other periodsandplaces. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,18/1/2016,SPi Urban Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World Editedby ANDREW WILSON and MIKO FLOHR 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,18/1/2016,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,18/1/2016,SPi Preface Thechaptersinthisvolumehavetheirorigininaworkshoporganizedbythe OxfordRomanEconomyProjectandheldatWolfsonCollege,Oxford,United Kingdom, 21–23 July 2011. The workshop, entitled Beyond Marginality: Craftsmen,TradersandtheSocio-EconomicHistoryofRomanUrbanCommu- nities,wasfundedbytheEuropeanScienceFoundationasanESFexploratory workshop,andbroughttogetherresearchersfromninedifferentcountrieswith theaimofexploringthetopicofRomanurbancraftsandtradesandtobuild bridgesbetweendifferentnationalscholarlytraditionsanddisciplines(ancient history,archaeology,epigraphy,papyrology).Liketheworkshopfromwhichit originates, this volume focuses on four key themes: the history of research, economicstrategiesofcraftsmenandtraders,thepositionofcraftsandtradein urbanspace,andcraftsmenandtradersintheirsocialenvironment. We thank the ESF for the exploratory workshop grant that made the workshop possible, all the speakers who took part and subsequently contrib- uted papers, and also Prof. Kristin Kuutma (Helsinki), who acted as the ESF observer and rapporteur. We are grateful to the staff of Wolfson College for their practical assistance during the workshop, and also to All Souls College for the provision of accommodation for some speakers. As ever, we are extremely grateful to Baron Lorne Thyssen for his continued support of the OxfordRomanEconomyProject. AndrewWilson MikoFlohr August2015 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,18/1/2016,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,18/1/2016,SPi Contents ListofContributors ix ListofFigures xiii ListofTables xvii ListofAbbreviations xviii Introduction 1 MikoFlohrandAndrewWilson I APPROACHES 1. RomanCraftsmenandTraders:TowardsanIntellectualHistory 23 MikoFlohrandAndrewWilson 2. Twentieth-CenturyItalianScholarshiponRoman Craftsmen,Traders,andtheirProfessionalOrganizations 55 CarlaSalvaterraandAlessandroCristofori 3. TheArchaeologyofRomanUrbanWorkshops:AFrenchApproach? 77 Jean-PierreBrun II STRATEGIES 4. MercantileSpecializationandTradingCommunities:Economic StrategiesinRomanMaritimeTrade 97 CandaceRice 5. DrivingForcesforSpecialization:Market,LocationFactors, ProductivityImprovements 115 KaiRuffing 6. FashionableFootwear:CraftsmenandConsumersinthe North-WestProvincesoftheRomanEmpire 132 CarolvanDriel-Murray 7. ContextualizingtheOperationalSequence:PompeianBakeries asaCaseStudy 153 NicolasMonteix III PEOPLE 8. Disciplina,patrocinium,nomen:TheBenefitsofApprenticeship intheRomanWorld 183 ChristelFreu OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,18/1/2016,SPi viii Contents 9. Women,Trade,andProductioninUrbanCentres ofRomanItaly 200 LenaLarssonLovén 10. FreedmenandAgencyinRomanBusiness 222 WimBroekaert 11. TheSocialOrganizationofCommerceandCraftsinAncient Arles:Heterogeneity,Hierarchy,andPatronage 254 NicolasTran 12. HierapolisanditsProfessionalAssociations:AComparative Analysis 278 IliasArnaoutoglou IV SPACE 13. WorkingTogether:ClustersofArtisansintheRomanCity 301 PenelopeGoodman 14. SpatialConcentrationandDispersalofRomanTextileCrafts 334 KerstinDroß-Krüpe 15. IndustryandCommerceintheCityofAquincum 352 OrsolyaLáng 16. ThePottersofAncientSagalassosRevisited 377 JeroenPoblome Index 405 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,18/1/2016,SPi List of Contributors IliasN.ArnaoutoglougraduatedattheFacultyofLaw,AristotelianUniversity ofThessaloniki.HeholdsaPh.D.inancientGreekhistoryfromtheUniversity of Glasgow (1993). He was assistant editor for the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, Oxford, from 1994 to 1999. Currently, he is senior researcher in the Research Centre for the History of Greek Law, Academy of Athens. He has written extensively on Hellenistic and Greco-Roman associations, ancient Greeklegalhistoryandinstitutions,andinstitutionsinpre-nineteenth-century Turkish-occupiedGreece. Wim Broekaert is a postdoctoral researcher in Ancient History at Ghent University. He has published widely on many aspects of Roman trade. His first monograph, Navicularii et negotiantes: A Prosopographical Study of RomanMerchantsandShippers,waspublishedin2013. Jean-Pierre Brun is a professor at the Collège de France in Paris, and, until 2012,directoroftheCentreJeanBérardatNaples.Heisarenownedspecialist inthearchaeologyofRomanagricultureandcrafts,andhaspublishedwidely on olive-oil and wine production in the Greco-Roman world, and on urban craftsinRomanItaly. Alessandro Cristofori is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bologna, formerly Professor of Roman History at the University of Calabria. His research has focused both onthe epigraphy of crafts in Roman Italy and on the historiography of craftsmen and traders in twentieth-century Italy. In 2004,hepublishedamonographontheepigraphyofcraftsinPicenum(Non ArmaVirumque:leoccupazioninell’epigrafiadelPiceno). CarolvanDriel-Murray(LeidenUniversity)isAssistantProfessorofProvin- cialRomanArchaeologyattheUniversityofLeiden.Herresearchfocuseson Roman and medieval leathercraft, Roman military equipment, and gender issuesinrelationtotheRomanarmy.ShehaspublishedextensivelyonRoman leatherwork and footwear from archaeological excavations, skin-processing technologies,andtheroleoffootwearinritualcomplexes.Reconstructionand experiment figure prominently in her research into the structure and use of militaryequipmentsuchastentsandsaddles. Kerstin Droß-Krüpe studied classical archaeology, ancient history, and business administration at Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany. Her thesis, supervised by Kai Ruffing and Hans-Joachim Drexhage at Marburg,
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