Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt

ISBN-13: 9780198147350 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 400 str.

Jane Rowlandson

Opis

Oxyrynchus in Egypt is the best documented city of the Roman empire. This book uses the thousands of papyrus documents found there to examine how its urban landowning class derived its wealth from the outlying rural lands, and the relationships they held with their tenants.

Recenzje

Even this inadequate summary gives, I hope, a sense of the riches of this careful, intelligent, and levelheaded work, in which the nature and limits of the documentation are almost always kept in view, but allowed to enrich rather than to paralyze generalization. With it, our understanding of the complex ways in which the distinctive society of Roman Egypt was formed is greatly advanced.