This chapter examines the relative importance of public institutions and free market forces in
resolving urban food crises in the Roman empire. It argues that due to the existence of …

This is the first full-length treatment of food supply and food crisis in classical antiquity.
Hunger was never far away in the world of Greece and Rome, yet ancient historians have …

Over the past decade, several publications, amongst which most prominently the
monograph published by Kyle Harper in 2017, have argued that climate change was a …

This book explores the economic, social and political forces that shaped the grain market in
the Roman Empire. Examining studies on food supply and the grain market in pre-industrial …

The actual importance of the issue of food supply has piqued the interest of historians and
economists, leading them to identify the role of grain and its possible scarcity in the market …

" One may not hoard in the Land of Israel those products which are basic commodities such
as wines, oils, flours and fruits [...] During a year of drought one should not even hoard a kab …

Explanation of the success and failure of the Roman economy is one of the most important
problems in economic history. As an economic system capable of sustaining high production …

In March 1950, Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, bishop of the Solsona diocese in Spain,
published a pastoral letter entitled" Our Daily Bread". The document was a declaration of …

At the height of its development, the Roman Empire enjoyed an agricultural regime as
intensive and diversified as any preindustrial society. The existence of broad and affluent …

In this dissertation, the role which famines and plagues played in the collapse of the Roman
Empire will he investi gated, for as Rostovtzeff remarked* A full collection of the evidence …