Project

The 'Craftsmen Guilds' (collegia fabrum) in the Roman West in the Imperial period

Code

3G044114

Duration

01 January 2014 → 31 December 2019

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Koenraad Verboven

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Economic archaeology
- Ancient history
- Socio-economic history

Keywords

guilds social history econoomic history Roman history German English French Greek Italian Latin Comparative Geographic and map based Language and text analysis Antiquity Central Europe Western Europe Southern Europe History

Project description

Roman cities relied on privileged guilds to function. Craftsmen guilds (collegia fabri) took pride of place but remain much debated. We study their spread, membership, organization, influence and impact on economic development. Our theoretical framework is based on social capital theory and new institutional economics. Methodologically we rely on GIS, prosopography & social network analysis, norm analyses and entitlement mapping.