Banking and business in the Roman world / Jean Andreau ; translated by Janet Lloyd

Author: Andreau, Jean
Uniform Title: Vie financi�ere dans le monde romain. English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 176 pages) : 1 map

Access Online

ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu

Availability

Finding items...

Series

Key themes in ancient history

Language Note

English.

Contents

The financial activities of the elite -- Banks and bankers -- Other categories of financiers -- Dependants -- The tablets of Murecine -- The tesserae nummulariae -- The interest rate -- Rome's responses to financiers and financial crises -- The financial activities of the city of Rome and of the Empire -- The problem of quantities and quantitative developments -- Financial life in Roman society and economy.

Summary

This work presents a synthetic view of Roman banking and financial life as a whole, from the time of the appearance of the first bankers shops in the Forum between 318 and 310 BC through to the end of the Principate in AD 284.

Subject(s)

Genre(s)

History

ISBN

0511006799 (electronic bk.)
9780511006791 (electronic bk.)
0521380316
0521389321 (pbk.)
9780521380317
9780521389327 (pbk.)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index.

View MARC record | catkey: 43252328