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As it is today, the property market was a key and dynamic economic
sector in Ancient Rome. Its study demands a deep understanding of
Roman society, of the normative frameworks and the notions of
wealth, value, identity and status that shaped individual and
collective mentalities. This book takes a multisided insight into
real estate as the subject of short- and long-term economic
investments, of speculative businesses ventures, of power abuses
and inequalities, of social aspirations, but also of essential
housing needs. The volume discusses thoroughly relevant and new
literary, legal, epigraphic, papyrological and archaeological
evidence, and incorporates comparative historical perspectives and
methodologies, including economic theory and current, critical
sociological debates about the functioning of modern real estate
markets and issues linked to its commodification and regulation. In
pursuing this line of enquiry, the contributions that make up the
book investigate the impact of ideas such as profit, risk, security
and trust in transfers, management and use of residential houses,
commercial buildings and productive estates in urban and rural
contexts. The work further evaluates the legal responses to and the
public enforcement strategies concerning such activities, the high
mobility of fortunes and unstable property-rights that resulted
from one-off but also structural, political, financial, economic
and institutional crises that marked the history of the Roman
Republic and Principate. This book aims to demonstrate the
relevance of the study of pre-modern real estate markets today, and
will be of significant interest to readers of economic history as
well as Roman law, Roman archaeology, the history of urbanism and
social history.
This volume studies information as an economic resource in the
Roman World. Information asymmetry is a distinguishing phenomenon
of any human relationship. From an economic perspective, private or
hidden information, opposed to publicly observable information,
generates advantages and inequalities; at the same time, it is a
source of profit, legal and illegal, and of transaction costs. The
contributions that make up the present book aim to deepen our
understanding of the economy of Ancient Rome by identifying and
analysing formal and informal systems of knowledge and institutions
that contributed to control, manage, restrict and enhance
information. The chapters scrutinize the impact of information
asymmetries on specific economic sectors, such as the labour market
and the market of real estate, as well as the world of professional
associations and trading networks. It further discusses structures
and institutions that facilitated and regulated economic
information in the public and the private spheres, such as market
places, auctions, financial mechanisms and instruments, state
treasures and archives. Managing Asymmetric Information in the
Roman Economy invites the reader to evaluate economic activities
within a larger collective mental, social, and political framework,
and aims ultimately to test the applicability of tools and ideas
from theoretical frameworks such as the Economics of Information to
ancient and comparative historical research.
This volume studies information as an economic resource in the
Roman World. Information asymmetry is a distinguishing phenomenon
of any human relationship. From an economic perspective, private or
hidden information, opposed to publicly observable information,
generates advantages and inequalities; at the same time, it is a
source of profit, legal and illegal, and of transaction costs. The
contributions that make up the present book aim to deepen our
understanding of the economy of Ancient Rome by identifying and
analysing formal and informal systems of knowledge and institutions
that contributed to control, manage, restrict and enhance
information. The chapters scrutinize the impact of information
asymmetries on specific economic sectors, such as the labour market
and the market of real estate, as well as the world of professional
associations and trading networks. It further discusses structures
and institutions that facilitated and regulated economic
information in the public and the private spheres, such as market
places, auctions, financial mechanisms and instruments, state
treasures and archives. Managing Asymmetric Information in the
Roman Economy invites the reader to evaluate economic activities
within a larger collective mental, social, and political framework,
and aims ultimately to test the applicability of tools and ideas
from theoretical frameworks such as the Economics of Information to
ancient and comparative historical research.
Political Conversations in Ciceronian Rome offers for the first
time a perspective of Roman politics through the proxy of
conversations and meetings. In Rome oral was the default mode of
communication in politics: oratory before the people in assemblies,
addresses and discussions in the Senate, speeches in the law
courts, rumours, and public opinion. We are familiar with the
notion that the Roman political world of the Late Republic included
lofty speeches and sessions of the Senate, but an important aspect
of Late-Republican politics revolved around senators talking among
themselves, chatting off in the corner. Only when they could not
reach each other in person, Roman senators and their peers resorted
to letters. This book intends to analyse political conversations
and illuminate the oral dimension of Roman politics. It posits that
the study of politics should not be restricted to the senatorial
group, but that other persons should be considered as important
political actors with their own agency (albeit in different
degrees), such as freedmen and elite women. It argues that Roman
senators and their entourages met in person to have conversations
in which they discussed politics, circulated political information
and negotiated strategies; this extra-institutional sphere had a
relevant impact both on politics and institutions as well as
determined how the Roman Republic functioned.
This book focuses on the characters that populate the Game of
Thrones universe and on one of the most salient features of their
interaction: violence and warfare. It analyses these questions from
a multidisciplinary perspective that is chiefly based on Classical
Studies. The book is divided into two sections. The first section
explores Martin's characters as the mainstay of both the novels and
the TV series, since the author has peopled his universe with
three-dimensional intriguing characters that resonate with the
reader/audience. The second section is devoted to violence and
warfare, both pervasive in the Game of Thrones universe. In
particular, the TV series' depiction of violence is explicit, going
beyond the limits that have seldom been traversed in primetime
television i.e. the execution of Ned Stark, the "Red Wedding" and
"Battle of the Bastards". In the Game of Thrones universe, violence
is not only restricted to warfare but is an everyday occurrence, a
result of the social and gender inequalities characterising the
world created by Martin.
This book reflects on time, space and culture in the Game of
Thrones universe. It analyses both the novels and the TV series
from a multidisciplinary perspective ultimately aimed at
highlighting the complexity, eclecticism and diversity that
characterises Martinâs world. The book is divided into three
thematic sections. The first section focuses on spaceâboth the
urban and natural environmentâand the interaction between human
beings and their surroundings. The second section follows different
yet complementary approaches to Game of Thrones from an aesthetic
and cultural perspective. The final section addresses the
linguistic and translation implications of the Game of Thrones
universe, as well as its didactic uses. This book is paired with a
second volume that focuses on the characters that populate
Martinâs universe, as well as on one of the ways in which they
often interactâviolence and warfareâfrom the same
multidisciplinary perspective.
This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in
Late Republican Rome as a part of informal politics. It explores
the political interaction (and sometimes opposition) between the
elite and the people through various means, such as rumours,
gossip, political literature, popular verses and graffiti. It also
proposes the existence of a public sphere in Late Republican Rome
and analyses public opinion in that time as a system of control. By
applying the spatial turn to politics, it becomes possible to study
sociability and informal meetings where public opinion circulated.
What emerges is a wider concept of the political participation of
the people, not just restricted to voting or participating in the
assemblies.
This book investigates the working mechanisms of public opinion in
Late Republican Rome as a part of informal politics. It explores
the political interaction (and sometimes opposition) between the
elite and the people through various means, such as rumours,
gossip, political literature, popular verses and graffiti. It also
proposes the existence of a public sphere in Late Republican Rome
and analyses public opinion in that time as a system of control. By
applying the spatial turn to politics, it becomes possible to study
sociability and informal meetings where public opinion circulated.
What emerges is a wider concept of the political participation of
the people, not just restricted to voting or participating in the
assemblies.
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