The Negev. The Challenge of a Desert

List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgements 1. Themes in the Historical Geography of Viticulture 2. Viticulture and Vinification 3. The Origins of Viticulture Symbols and Mysteries 4. Wine in the Graeco-Roman Economy 5. Viticulture and Wine in the Early Middle Ages 6. Medieval Viticulture and the Wine Trade 7. Wine in the Age of Discovery 8. Capital in the Sphere of Production 9. Crises and Expansion: The Restructuring of Viticulture in the 19th Century 10. The Dominance of Capital in the 20th Century: Demarcation, Sectoral Integration and the Creation of Fashion Conclusion Appendix: Historic Wine Measures Bibliography

Wine and the Vine: An Historical Geography of Viticulture and the Wine Trade

Preface 1. The problem of Byzantium and the early Islamic conquests 2. The Byzantine Empire in an era of accelerating change 3. Difficulties in devising defences for Syria 4. The first Muslim penetrations of Byzantine territory 5. Early tests in southern Palestine 6. Problems of cohesion: the battle of Jabiya-Yarmuk reconsidered 7. The brief struggle to save northern Syria and Byzantine Mesopotamia 8. Byzantium, Armenia, Armenians, and early Islamic conquests 9. Controversy and confidence in the seventh-century crisis 10. Elements of failure and endurance Bibliography Index.

Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests

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 Europe, it addresses questions of productivity, division of labour, market relations and market integration. The social and political aspects of the Roman grain market are also considered. Dr Erdkamp illustrates how entitlement to food in Roman society was dependent on relations with the emperor, his representatives and the landowning aristocracy, and local rulers controlling the towns and hinterlands. He assesses the response of the Roman authorities to weaknesses in the grain market and looks at the implications of the failure of local harvests. By examining the subject from a contemporary perspective, this book will appeal not only to historians of ancient economies, but to all concerned with the economy of grain markets, a subject which still resonates today.

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The Grain Market in the Roman Empire: A Social, Political and Economic Study

Darlene L. Brooks Hedstrom offers a new history of the field of Egyptian monastic archaeology. It is the first study in English to trace how scholars identified a space or site as monastic within the Egyptian landscape and how such identifications impacted perceptions of monasticism. Brooks Hedstrom then provides an ecohistory of Egypt's tripartite landscape to offer a reorientation of the perception of the physical landscape. She analyzes late-antique documentary evidence, early monastic literature, and ecclesiastical history before turning to the extensive archaeological evidence of Christian monastic settlements. In doing so, she illustrates the stark differences between idealized monastic landscape and the actual monastic landscape that was urbanized through monastic constructions. Drawing upon critical theories in landscape studies, materiality and phenomenology, Brooks Hedstrom looks at domestic settlements of non-monastic and monastic settlements to posit what features makes monastic settlements unique, thus offering a new history of monasticism in Egypt.

The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction

The reputation of the city of Gaza as producer of a vintage of export quality to the west has long been known. However, the factors that made the name of Gaza synonymous with its wine in the 5th an...

The Wine and Vineyards of Gaza in the Byzantine Period

more than one India in articles subsumed under that name in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, in the Greek lexica of Liddell and Scott and Lampe, and in the new Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium; and barely more than a hint in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie.2 Historians, dealing with commerce between Rome and the East, however, are aware of several Indias. Warmington, speaking of the so-called trade with "Indians" following the fourth century, states that it "was in reality trade with the Ethiopians and even under Justinian in the sixth century Byzantine subjects visited not India so much as Arabia and Axumite realms (particularly Adulis) and the ignorance now shown about India was truly prodigious."3 As a general statement, Warmington is on the mark, but there remains a confusion in determining specifically what India is meant-Ethiopian, Arabian, or subcontinental India. Not all sources or all scholars agree. Take for example the article "India" in the new Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, where it is stated that "according to Philostorgios, Constantine

A confusion of indias: asian india and african india in the byzantine sources

Justinian's edict of ca. 536 (Novel 103) merits close attention since it bears directly on events within Palestine that are separated by almost two centuries. The Novel contains an historical preci...

Justinian's Novel 103 and the Reorganization of Palestine

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The Wine and Vineyards of Gaza in the Byzantine Period

A confusion of indias: asian india and african india in the byzantine sources

Justinian's Novel 103 and the Reorganization of Palestine

L'Arabie préislamique et son environnement historique et culturel: Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 24-27 juin 1987@@@L'Arabie preislamique et son environnement historique et culturel: Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 24-27 juin 1987

The City of Elusa in the Literary Sources of the Fourth-Sixth Centuries