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Merrony, Mark

 
9781138041974: The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD (Routledge Studies in Ancient History)
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ISBN 10: 1138041971 ISBN 13: 9781138041974
Editorial: Routledge, 2017

Sinopsis

The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD argues that the fall of the western Roman Empire was rooted in a significant drop in war booty, agricultural productivity, and mineral resources. Merrony proposes that a dependency on the three economic components was established with the Principate, when a precedent was set for an unsustainable threshold on military spending.

Drawing on literary and archaeological data, this volume establishes a correspondence between booty (in the form of slaves and precious metals) from foreign campaigns and public building programmes, and how this equilibrium was upset after the Empire reached its full expansion and began to contract in the third century. It is contended that this trend was exacerbated by the systematic loss of agricultural productivity (principally grain, but also livestock), as successive barbarian tribes were settled and wrested control from the imperial authorities in the fifth century. Merrony explores how Rome was weakened and divided, unable to pay its army, feed its people, or support the imperial bureaucracy – and how this contributed to its administrative collapse.

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Mark Merrony is a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (both in the UK). He specializes in Roman archaeology and history, and has undertaken fieldwork in Britain, France, and the Levant. Socio-economic aspects of Late Roman Mosaic Pavements in Phoenicia and Northern Palestine was published in 2013, and he has authored several peer-reviewed papers on the subject.

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2017
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
1138041971
ISBN 13 
9781138041974
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
218
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9780367896072: The Plight of Rome in the Fifth Century AD (Routledge Studies in Ancient History)

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ISBN 10:  0367896079 ISBN 13:  9780367896072
Editorial: Routledge, 2019
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