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Author:   Koenraad Verboven
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.503kg
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9783030479008

ISBN 10:   3030479005
Pages:   363
Publication Date:   27 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Finding a new approach to ancient proxy data.- Part I- Theoretical Frameworks and Methodologies.- Chapter 2: Playing by whose rules? Institutional resilience, conflict and change in the Roman economy.- Chapter 3: Networks as Proxies: a relational approach towards economic complexity in the Roman period.- Chapter 4: Evaluating the potential of computational modelling for informing debates on Roman economic integration.- Chapter 5: Visualising Roman institutional environments for exchange as a complex system.- PART II- Urban Systems.- Chapter 6: Social complexity and complexity economics. Studying socio-economic systems at Düzen Tepe and Sagalassos (SW Turkey).-  Chapter 7: A method for estimating Roman population sizes from urban survey contexts: an application in central Adriatic Italy.-  Chapter 8: Complexity and urban hierarchy of ancient urbanism: the cities of Roman Asia Minor.- PART III- Epidemics.- Chapter 9: Disease proxies and the diagnosis of the late Antonine economy.- Chapter 10: Measuring and Comparing Economic Interaction Based on the Paths and Speed of Infections. The Case Study of the Spread of the Justinianic Plague and Black Death.

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Koenraad Verboven is Professor of Ancient History at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published extensively on ancient social and economic history, including the monograph The Economy of Friends: Economic Aspects of Amicitia and Patronage in the Late Republic and six edited volumes on Roman economic and legal history.

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