The establishment of Christianity in the late- and post-Roman world caused an economic as well as a religious revolution, but, while a great deal of attention has been paid to the religious developments of the period, the impact of the establishment of the Church on the economy has attracted...

Kloft ist Professor für Alte Geschichte in Bremen; er geht besonders ausführlich auf die bisherige Wirtschaftsgeschichtsschreibung und die Quellenkunde ein. Viele Hinweise für Studierende. Die einzelnen Epochen der griechischen und römischen Antike werden in Verbindung mit Politik und...

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying...