1st Edition
The Real Estate Market in the Roman World
1 Embedded, Eclectic, Elusive: The Real Estate Market and the Roman Economy
MARTA GARCÍA MORCILLO AND CRISTINA ROSILLO-LÓPEZ
PART I Concepts and Control
2 Government Intervention in Real Estate in the Roman World
CRISTINA ROSILLO-LÓPEZ
3 Beyond Price: Constructions of Value and the Real Estate Market in Ancient Rome
MARTA GARCÍA MORCILLO
PART II Land, Property, and Law
4 Land and Securing the Future in the Roman Empire
DENNIS KEHOE
5 Praedia agris meis vicina atque etiam inserta venalia sunt: A Reflection on the Modalities and Effects of the Circulation of Agrarian Properties between the Late Republic and the Principate
LUIGI CAPOGROSSI COLOGNESI
6 The Real Estate Market in the Campanian Wax-Tablets
JEAN ANDREAU
PART III Social Status, Forms of Investment, and the Roman Elite
7 Understanding the Roman Real Estate Market: A Case Study of Information Constraints and Behaviour
MAX KOEDIJK
8 Ocelli Italiae: Senatorial villae as Information Hubs
FRANCISCO PINA POLO
9 A Luxury Maritime Villa on the Sorrento Peninsula: When Real Estate Does Not Make Financial Sense
ANNALISA MARZANO
10 Property Management and Social Patronage: The gens Neratia in Rome and Central-Southern Italy between the Second and the Fourth Centuries AD
MARIA LETIZIA CALDELLI AND CECILIA RICCI
PART IV Urban Businesses
11 “Two of My Shops Have Collapsed…”: Real Estate and Predatory Urban Practices in Late Republican Central Italy
DOMINIK MASCHEK
12 The horrea: How Storage Engaged with Shipping Flows and Made the Roman Economy Bigger
EMILIA MATAIX FERRÁNDIZ
PART V Properties Beyond Italy
13 Imperial Properties in the North-Western Provinces: Possible Patterns of Acquisition and Sale
SOFIA PIACENTIN
14 The Real Estate Markets in Roman Egypt
PAUL V. KELLY
Biography
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.
