The Ancient Economy
(Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 3rd edn, 1999) is highly
readable and provocative, but Finley’s view of antiquity has been increasingly
questioned in recent years (as the useful introduction to this edition by Ian Morris
makes clear), and he treats Greece and Rome as a unity. The latest academic thinking
on the development of the ancient economy can be found in the monumental and
expensive
Cambridge Economic History of Greco-Roman Antiquity
, edited by W.
Scheidel, I. Morris & R. Saller (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Some useful articles are collected in W. Scheidel & S. von Reden (eds),
The Ancient
Economy
(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002).
culTurE
R. Hingley,
Globalizaing Roman Culture: unity, diversity and empire
(London &
New York, 2005), summarises the key debates and offers a wealth of stimulating
material and perspectives; his earlier work,
Roman Officers and English Gentlemen:
the imperial origins of Roman archaeology
(London & New York: Routledge, 2000).
Important collections of articles on ‘Romanization’ are J. Webster & N. Cooper (eds),
Roman imperialism: post-colonial perspectives
(Leicester: Leicester Archaeology
Monographs, 1996), D.W. Mattingly (ed.),
Dialogues in Roman Imperialism:
power, discourse, and discrepant experience in the Roman Empire
(Portsmouth,
RI:
Journal of Roman Archaeology
,
Supplementary Series 23, 1997) and S. Keay
& N. Terrenato (eds),
Italy and the West: comparative issues in Romanization
(Oxford: Oxbow, 2001). On religion, see M. Beard, J. North & S. Price,
Religions
of Rome
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) and J. Rüpke,
Religion
of the Romans
(Cambridge: Polity, 2007). On the Greek experience and the Second
Sophistic, see S. Swain,
Hellenism and Empire: language, classicism and power
in the Greek world, AD 50–250
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996) and
T. Whitmarsh,
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: the politics of imitation
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
ThE World of laTE anTIquITy
Once again, there is a wide choice of reading for this vast topic. Good narrative
accounts – covering slightly different time-spans, and so placing different emphasis on
the degree of continuity of change – include A. Cameron,
The Later Roman Empire
(London: Fontana, 1993), R. Collins,
Early Medieval Europe 300–1000
(2nd edn)
(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999) and S. Mitchell,
A History of the Later Roman
Empire AD 284–641
(Oxford & Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2006). Recommended
theoretical and analytical works are A. Cameron,
The Mediterranean World in Late
Antiquity
(London & New York: Routledge, 1993), P. Garnsey & C. Humfress,
The Evolution of the Late Antique World
(Cambridge: Orchard Academic, 2001)
and C. Wickham,
The Inheritance of Rome: a history of Europe from 400 to 1000
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ThE roman EmpIrE
(London: Allen Lane, 2009). Two stimulating essays on the nature of the changes
in late antiquity are P. Anderson,
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
(London:
Verso, 1974) and A. Schiavone,
The End of the Past: ancient Rome and the modern
west
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
ThE lEgacy of romE
The study of the ‘reception’ of classical antiquity is a relatively new area of study, with
a lot of exciting work but few accessible, non-specialised introductions. L. Hardwick
& C. Stray (eds),
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