Sociological Studies in Roman History

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series information......Page 4
Title page......Page 5
Copyright information......Page 6
Table of contents......Page 7
List of figures......Page 9
List of tables......Page 11
List of contributors......Page 13
Preface......Page 17
Editorial Note......Page 20
Biographical Note......Page 21
Building the Wigwam......Page 23
Sociological Studies in Roman History......Page 40
Being There......Page 50
1 Contraception in the Roman Empire......Page 77
The Medical Tradition......Page 82
Effective and Ineffective Methods......Page 91
The Use of Contraceptives and the Confusion of Contraception with Abortion......Page 93
A Note on the Talmudic Tradition56......Page 102
Coitus Interruptus......Page 103
Conclusions......Page 113
2 A Textual Emendation in a Fragment of Musonius Rufus: A Note on Contraception......Page 115
Afterword Contraception in The Roman Empire A Textual Emendation in A Fragment Of Musonius .........Page 121
Argument......Page 127
The Evidence......Page 129
Average Age at Death – Alleged Regional Variations......Page 130
The Median Length of Life – Alleged Regional Variations – a Critique of Burn......Page 133
Tests of Consistency......Page 136
Explanation of Tables 3.4 and 3.5......Page 140
The Length of Marriage......Page 149
The Imputed Early Death of Women......Page 150
4 Graveyards for Historians......Page 157
Afterword On the Probable Age Structure of the Roman Population......Page 176
5 Economic Growth and Towns in Classical Antiquity......Page 182
Textiles and Metals......Page 200
Metals......Page 204
Conquest and the Growth of Towns......Page 209
The Level of Urbanisation and the Functions of Towns......Page 219
Afterword Economic Growth and Towns in classical Antiquity......Page 229
Propositions 1 and 2......Page 235
Some Qualifications......Page 239
Proposition 3: Rents and Taxes......Page 242
Proposition 4: The Growth of Trade 200 bc–ad 200......Page 243
Proposition 5: The Growth of the Money Supply......Page 245
Proposition 6: The Integration of the Monetary Economy in the High Empire......Page 255
Proposition 7: Taxes in the High Empire were Low......Page 262
Conclusion: Low Taxes and their Consequences......Page 272
Appendix 1: The Cost of the Roman Army......Page 279
Afterword Taxes and Trade in the Roman Empire (200 bc–ad 400)......Page 282
A Rough Model......Page 291
Taxes in Kind......Page 295
Rents in Kind......Page 296
Surplus Sold Locally and Transhipped......Page 297
The City of Rome......Page 298
Alexandria, Antioch, Carthage......Page 299
Other Market Towns......Page 301
Long-Distance and Middle-Range Transport of Staples......Page 304
Short-Haul Transport and Local Urban Consumption......Page 307
The Cost of Ships and of Transport......Page 311
The Size of Roman Merchant Ships......Page 313
Transport Prices......Page 321
Afterword Models, Ships and Staples......Page 328
Introduction: The Lupercalia......Page 335
A Complex of Rituals......Page 341
The Levy......Page 348
The Census......Page 351
Popular Assemblies......Page 352
Configurations of a Lifetime: Other Rituals......Page 358
Afterword From Violence to Blessing: Symbols and Rituals in Ancient Rome......Page 362
9 Slavery in Classical Antiquity......Page 368
Afterword Slavery in Classical Antiquity......Page 379
Introduction: Detail, Density and Growth......Page 385
Literacy as Product and Producer of Changes in the Roman State......Page 388
The Birth and Growth of Coptic......Page 397
More Details: Literacy in Village and Town......Page 401
(1) Bi-partite Receipts, and (2) Authenticators and Signatories......Page 402
(3) Village Schools......Page 406
(4) Guild-Rules and Secretaries......Page 408
(5) Tax Statistics in the Village......Page 409
Afterword Conquest by Book......Page 413
11 Novel Evidence for Roman Slavery......Page 420
Afterword Novel Evidence for Roman Slavery......Page 447
12 Christian Number and its implications......Page 454
The Limitations of Induction......Page 457
Seduction by Probability......Page 462
Absolute Numbers, Proportions and Persecutions......Page 465
Communities: Number, Size and Dispersion......Page 469
Age, Sex and the Role of Women......Page 475
Literacy and Stratification......Page 479
Christians and Jews......Page 487
On the Social Production of Religious Ideology......Page 491
The Implications of Mass Conversion......Page 497
Summary......Page 500
Afterword Christian Number and its Implications......Page 503
2 Origins and Evolution......Page 510
3 The Fiscal System......Page 515
4 Taxation and the Central Government......Page 518
5 The Steady State......Page 520
6.1 Emperors and Aristocrats......Page 525
6.2 The City of Rome......Page 529
6.3 The Army......Page 533
7 Economic Growth......Page 537
Afterword The Political Economy of the Roman Empire......Page 549
Editor’s Foreword......Page 556
An Introduction to Heaven......Page 557
Holding onto Power......Page 558
A Brief Escapade......Page 563
Getting There......Page 564
Editor’s Afterword......Page 567
Afterword How to Be a Roman Emperor: An Autobiography......Page 571
Original Publication Details......Page 578
Bibliography......Page 580
Index......Page 628