Ecclesiastical Participation in Cypriot Economies: An Archaeological Perspective
By Catherine Keane
The manifestation of religious, social, and economic change is potentially more honest in the material of individual and small-scale life (i.e. agriculture) than in textual references or civic monuments, as it represents on a personal scale the expression of the Christian atmosphere.From the 5thcentury onward, the history of Cyprus is one of wealth, imperial attention, ecclesiastical autocracy, and foreign invasion.
Aediles and Agoranomoi in Late Antiquity: Imperial Policy and the Decline of Marketplace Oversight
By Kevin Woram
In the high Roman empire marketplace overseers (aediles and agoranomoi) were persons of significant commercial importance and social prestige. In late antiquity, however, I argue that as a consequence of a number of broader changes in imperial policies they lost much of their standing and power. Their importance in the high empire is clear from direct evidence such as literary attestations and honorific inscriptions.
Emporium Aegyptium: Egypt as a Global Marketplace
By Irene Soto Marín
It is a curiosity of ancient historical studies that Egypt has played only a marginal role in much of the high-level debate about the Roman and Late Antique economy (McCormick 2002; Horden and Purcell 2000), though it has much quantified evidence to offer which has been the subject of a lot of scholarly investigation (Bowman and Wilson 2009; de Call