The Transformation of Economic Life under the Roman Empire : a Proceedings of the Second Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C. - A.D. 476), Nottingham, July 4-7, 2001 / edited by Lukas de Blois ; J. Rich.

Preliminary Material -- PREFACE / M.C.W. Pinto and J.J.G. Syatauw -- INTRODUCTION / LUKAS DE BLOIS, HARRY W. PLEKET and JOHN RICH -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- ROMANS AND MUGHALS ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IN A TRIBUTARY EMPIRE / PETER FIBIGER BANG -- THE ROMAN ECONOMY: FROM CITIES TO EMPIRE / WILLEM M. JONGMAN -- TAX TRANSFERS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE / LUUK DE LIGT -- THE IMPACT AND INTERACTION OF STATE TRANSPORT IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE / ANNE KOLB -- MILITARY SUPPLY DURING WARTIME / JOSÉ REMESAL RODRÍGUEZ -- 'A STARVING MOB HAS NO RESPECt' URBAN MARKETS AND FOOD RIOTS IN THE ROMAN WORLD, 100 B.C. -- 400 A.D. / PAUL P.M. ERDKAMP -- CALLISTUS'S CASE SOME LEGAL ASPECTS OF ROMAN BUSINESS ACTIVITIES / WILLEM J. ZWALVE -- PROLOGUE AND EPILOGUE. THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC EFFECT OF ROME'S ARRIVAL IN AND DEPARTURE FROM GAUL / JOHN F. DRINKWATER -- INDICATEURS PALEOENVIRONNEMENTAUX ET ECONOMIE RURALE LE CAS DE LA GAULE NARBONNAISE / PHILIPPE LEVEAU -- COIN USE IN AND AROUND MILITARY CAMPS ON THE LOWER-RHINE: NIJMEGEN -- KOPS PLATEAU / JOS P.A. VAN DER VIN -- THE ECONOMIC FRINGE: THE REACH OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN ROUGH CILICIA / HUGH W. ELTON -- IMPACTS BEYOND EMPIRE: ROME AND THE GARAMANTES OF THE SAHARA / DAVID J. MATTINGLY -- THE CRISIS OF THE THIRD CENTURY A.D. IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE: A MODERN MYTH? / LUKAS DE BLOIS -- COSTO DEL LAVORO E POTERE D'ACQUISTO NELL'EDITTO DEI PREZZI / ANTONIO POLICHETTI -- UNSUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THE ORIGIN OF RUINED LANDSCAPES IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE / WOLFGANG LIEBESCHUETZ -- ECONOMIC COLLAPSE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE CONSEQUENT TRANSFORMATION OF CITY INTO FORTRESS IN LATE ANTIQUITY / ANDREW G. POULTER.

Did a Roman imperial economy exist under the Late Republic, the Roman Principate and the Later Roman Empire? And if so, what type of economy was it? Another equally important question is: did the Roman Empire, by specific actions, the creation of infrastructures, or its very existence, trigger a transformation of economic life in the regions which it dominated? Or was the Empire a marginal affair in the regions that belonged to it, and did economic developments take their own course, independently of the Empire? Questions like these, which are of great consequence to any student of Roman history, archaeology, and Roman law, are treated in this volume, which in its successive parts focuses on: 1. The character of the Roman economy. 2. Economic life in particular regions of the Roman Empire. 3. The economy of the Later Roman Empire.

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