Code
01P00510
Duration
01 October 2010 → 01 October 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Humanities and the arts
- Ancient history
- Socio-economic history
Keywords
comparative history
agency
Roman trade
merchants
economic history
financing
Antiquity
History
Project description
This project aims for a structural and comparative study of Roman trade, trying to pinpoint which features are essentially Roman and which are shared with other pre-industrial societies. By confronting the organization of Roman trade with pre-industrial parallels, we show that many commercial strategies to enhance efficiency (agency, financing, risk sharing etc.), were already in practice during the Roman empire.