Annalisa Marzano
Annalisa Marzano, FRHistS FSA, [https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Marzano_Annalisa MAE] (born 1969 in New York) is an Italian-American archaeologist and academic. She is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Bologna and has been Professor of Ancient History at the University of Reading in England. She specializes in Roman social and economic history. Provided by WikipediaRoman villas in central Italy : a social and economic history /
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This volume, which was awarded Honorable Mention and a Silver Medal from the Premio Romanistico Internationazionale Gérard Boulvert, investigates the socio-economic role of elite villas in Roman Central Italy drawing on both documentary sources and material evidence. Through the composite picture emerging from the juxtaposition of literary texts and archaeological evidence, the book traces elite ideological attitudes and economic behavior, caught between what was morally acceptable and the desire to invest capital intelligently. The analysis of the biases affecting the application of modern historiographical models to the interpretation of the archaeology frames the discussion on the identification of slave quarters in villas and the putative second century crisis of the Italian economy. The book brings an innovative perspective to the debate on the villa-system and the decline of villas in the imperial period.
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D., Columbia University, 2004). :
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [797]-816) and indexes. :
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