The Real Estate Market in the Roman World

Marta García Morcillo (Roehampton University, UK), Cristina Rosillo-López

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English

Routledge
22 March 2023

Classical history & classical civilisation; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; Microeconomics; Economic history

Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

As it is today, the property market was a key and dynamic economic sector in Ancient Rome. Its study demands a deep understanding of Roman society, of the normative frameworks and the notions of wealth, value, identity and status that shaped individual and collective mentalities. This book takes a multisided insight into real estate as the subject of short- and long-term economic investments, of speculative businesses ventures, of power abuses and inequalities, of social aspirations, but also of essential housing needs.

The volume discusses thoroughly relevant and new literary, legal, epigraphic, papyrological and archaeological evidence, and incorporates comparative historical perspectives and methodologies, including economic theory and current, critical sociological debates about the functioning of modern real estate markets and issues linked to its commodification and regulation. In pursuing this line of enquiry, the contributions that make up the book investigate the impact of ideas such as profit, risk, security and trust in transfers, management and use of residential houses, commercial buildings and productive estates in urban and rural contexts. The work further evaluates the legal responses to and the public enforcement strategies concerning such activities, the high mobility of fortunes and unstable property-rights that resulted from one-off but also structural, political, financial, economic and institutional crises that marked the history of the Roman Republic and Principate.

This book aims to demonstrate the relevance of the study of pre-modern real estate markets today, and will be of significant interest to readers of economic history as well as Roman law, Roman archaeology, the history of urbanism and social history.

Edited by: Marta García Morcillo (Roehampton University UK), Cristina Rosillo-López
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 730g
ISBN: 9781032035338
ISBN 10: 1032035331
Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 22 March 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marta García Morcillo is an Ancient Historian and Research Fellow at Durham University. Cristina Rosillo-López is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville.