The World of the Fullo takes a detailed look at the fullers, craftsmen who dealt with high-quality garments, of Roman Italy. Analyzing the social and economic worlds in which the fullers lived and worked, it tells the story of their economic circumstances, the way they organized their workshops, the places where they worked in the city, and their everyday lives on the shop floor and beyond.
Through focusing on the lower segments of society, Flohr uses everyday work as the major organizing principle of the narrative: the volume discusses the decisions taken by those responsible for the...

This volume presents fourteen papers by Roman archaeologists and historians discussing approaches to the economic history of Pompeii and the role of the Pompeian evidence in debates about the Roman economy.

Four themes are discussed: first, the position of Pompeii and its agricultural environment, discussing the productivity and specialization of agriculture in the Vesuvian region and the degree to which we can explain Pompeii's size and wealth on the basis of the city's economic hinterland. Secondly, what did Pompeians get out of their economy: how well-off were people in Pompeii? This...