Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt: The Social Relations of Agriculture in the Oxyrhynchite Nome

Oxyrynchus in Egypt is the best documented city of the Roman empire. This book uses the thousands of papyrus documents found there to examine how its urban landowning class derived its wealth from the outlying rural lands, and the relationships they held with their tenants.

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Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt: The Social Relations of Agriculture in the Oxyrhynchite Nome

Oxyrynchus in Egypt is the best documented city of the Roman empire. This book uses the thousands of papyrus documents found there to examine how its urban landowning class derived its wealth from the outlying rural lands, and the relationships they held with their tenants.

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Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt: The Social Relations of Agriculture in the Oxyrhynchite Nome

Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt: The Social Relations of Agriculture in the Oxyrhynchite Nome

by Jane Rowlandson
Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt: The Social Relations of Agriculture in the Oxyrhynchite Nome

Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt: The Social Relations of Agriculture in the Oxyrhynchite Nome

by Jane Rowlandson

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Oxyrynchus in Egypt is the best documented city of the Roman empire. This book uses the thousands of papyrus documents found there to examine how its urban landowning class derived its wealth from the outlying rural lands, and the relationships they held with their tenants.


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ISBN-13: 9780198147350
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 04/28/1996
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs Series
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 5.75(w) x 8.81(h) x 1.07(d)

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King's College, London
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