Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East: Agricultural Production and Exchange in the Late Antique East (Oxford Studies in Byzantium)

by Michael Decker (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $231.71

  A study of the agrarian landscape and economy of the late-antique eastern Mediterranean. Michael Decker describes the ways in which Roman farmers succeeded in producing food surpluses, fuelling a surge in population and a flowering of cultural expression and economic prosperity in the century before the arrival of Islam.