Professional Associations
by Jinyu Liu Abstract: Closely associated with the urban development under the Pax Romana, professional associations played a dynamic role in structuring the social and economic world of the sub-elite in the cities in…
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The Archaeology of Poverty: how poor were Roman peasants? Did they get poorer?
by Kimberly Bowes Abstract: Prof. Kimberly D. Bowes discusses how models about the collapse of the Roman Empire have often been predicated on the idea of poverty: that the end of Roman domination meant the decline of a…