Sitta von Reden: Money in Classical Antiquity, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Money in Classical Antiquity
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press, 03/2015
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780521459525
- Item number:
- 5617837
- Volume:
- 260 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2010
- Weight:
- 425 g
- Format:
- 227 x 154 mm
- Thickness:
- 15 mm
- Release date:
- 30.3.2015
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Short description
First comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. State-formation, expanding political networks, metal supply and above all an increasing sophistication of credit and contractual law are demonstrated as being the crucial factors in money's increasing influence.
Description
This is the first book to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. It uses new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy in antiquity and demonstrates that the crucial factors in its increasing influence were state-formation, expanding political networks, metal supply and above all an increasing sophistication of credit and contractual law. Covering a wide range of monetary contexts within the Mediterranean over almost a thousand years (c. 600 BC AD 300), it demonstrates that money played different roles in different social and political circumstances. The book will prove an invaluable introduction to upper-level students of ancient money, while also offering perspectives for future research to the specialist.
Content
Introduction
1. Monetization: issues
2. Monetization: cases
3. Monetary networks
4. Cash and credit
5. Prices and price formation: issues
6. Prices and price formation: case study
7. Sacred finance
Epilogue: monetary culture
Appendices
Glossary
Blurb
This book was the first to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. It uses new approaches in economic history to explore how money affected the economy in antiquity and demonstrates that the crucial factors in its increasing influence were state-formation, expanding political networks, metal supply and above all an increasing sophistication of credit and contractual law. Covering a wide range of monetary contexts within the Mediterranean over almost a thousand years (c. 600 BC-AD 300), it demonstrates that money played different roles in different social and political circumstances. The book will prove an invaluable introduction to upper-level students of ancient money, while also offering perspectives for future research to the specialist.
