Peasants Archive
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Excavating the Roman Peasant
Posted on November 12, 2012 | No CommentsThe result of a collaboration between four young archaeologists at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Cambridge, and the Universit -
The Gallic Aristocracy and the Roman Imperial government in the fifth century A.D.
Posted on September 23, 2012 | No CommentsThe recovery, however, proved to be too superficial for the continuing prosperity of either Gaul or the Western Roman Empire. The problems of the imperial government continued with little relief. The government still had to drive out and keep out the barbarians... -
Communal Agriculture in the Ptolemaic and Roman Fayyum
Posted on January 31, 2010 | No CommentsMy approach to land rights is social and economic rather than juristic. In other words, I am not interested in the interpretation of ancient legal terms according to Roman or civil law categories, which risks imposing rigid categories on social relations that have little explanatory power...In this paper, I use the economic concepts of communal and private land rights to illuminate these relations. -
In search of Roman economic growth
Posted on January 30, 2010 | No CommentsThe real question is not what the data reveal about change over time: it is what we would need to know in order to determine whether these data reflect extensive or intensive economic growth; why any such growth occurred, abated, and ceased; and how it related to the distribution of incomes. -
Farming in the ancient Greek world: how should the small free producers be defined?
Posted on December 28, 2009 | No CommentsThe peasant is often defined as a small self-sufficient producer who employs family labour to work a mixed farm. Living in little rural communities and a specific tradi- tional culture constitute other aspects of his specific situation. Agrarian societies often present social differentiations and involve several rapports between cultivators and the landed gentry.
