1st Edition

The Real Estate Market in the Roman World

310 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.