Economy and society in the age of Justinian / by Peter Sarris.

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Sarris, Peter

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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0511246439
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0511247125
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9780511496387
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9786610703739
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9781107169920
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Economy and society in the age of Justinian.DDC classification:

949.501 22

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DF572 .S27 2006eb

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Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Egypt and the political economy of empire; CHAPTER 2 The Apion archive: economic structure and estate accounts; CHAPTER 3 Labour and administration: the evidence of the contractual papyri; CHAPTER 4 Letters and petitions: social relations in the sixth-century Oxyrhynchite; CHAPTER 5 The Apiones and their analogues; CHAPTER 6 On the margins of magnate power: Dioscorus and Aphrodito; CHAPTER 7 Landscapes of power: the great estate beyond Egypt; CHAPTER 8 The historiography of the great estate.

Summary: Examines the social and economic context of the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527-65) and argues that, instead of the omnipotent autocrat of much imperial propaganda, there emerges an emperor desperately trying to reinforce the fiscal basis of the state in the face of large-scale aristocratic tax-evasion and resistance.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Examines the social and economic context of the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527-65) and argues that, instead of the omnipotent autocrat of much imperial propaganda, there emerges an emperor desperately trying to reinforce the fiscal basis of the state in the face of large-scale aristocratic tax-evasion and resistance.