This dissertation provides a wide-ranging analysis of the socio-economic life of the non-elite urban population of Rome and their interactions with the institutions and administration of the city from 275 until 455 CE. The traditional view holds that during this period the life …
Recent historiography has started to see crafts and guilds in the nineteenth century in the Middle East as more than just the declining remnants of a traditional past. On the basis of new (and old) sources—censuses, petitions and contemporary accounts—this dissertation discusses…
This dissertation is a study of craftsmen and merchants in Egypt and the Roman Empire, specifically the guilds these individuals formed to meet common economic, social and legal goals during the first seven centuries CE. Documentary papyri that preserve guild charters, contracts…
"The Arte dei rigattieri (merchants of second-hand goods in Florence) have never been the subject of a systematic study, even in scholarship devoted to the history of trades. Underpinned by a large collection of archival material, this book analyzes the social life and economic …
"The Arte dei rigattieri (merchants of second-hand goods in Florence) have never been the subject of a systematic study, even in scholarship devoted to the history of trades. Underpinned by a large collection of archival material, this book analyzes the social life and economic …
"The Arte dei rigattieri (merchants of second-hand goods in Florence) have never been the subject of a systematic study, even in scholarship devoted to the history of trades. Underpinned by a large collection of archival material, this book analyzes the social life and economic …
This third impression of the second edition was originally published in 1963, and in this classic study George Unwin attempted for the first time to bridge the gap between the economic development of medieval England and the England of the eighteenth century with a detailed stud…
