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Legal and Economic Practice in the Roman World, Volume II: Perspectives on Standardization and Localism

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Legal and Economic Practice in the Roman World, Volume II: Perspectives on Standardization and Localism

Author: Emilia Mataix Ferrandiz; Koenraad Verboven
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783031908026
Published In: March 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
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This edited volume examines the legal and economic world of the Romans through concepts, structures, and objects that reveal practices of standardization and localism. It explores the myriad ways in which the Roman Empire became an integrated political, social and economic system.

Split across two volumes, the collection addresses the dynamic interaction between Rome and its provinces in developing institutions crucial to societal and economic development. It challenges notions of uniformity, demonstrating how tensions between imperial standardization and local cultures could both drive innovative legal and economic practices and hinder empire-wide integration. The chapters explore broad questions from various disciplinary perspectives, including ancient economic history, law, papyrology, epigraphy and archaeology. Contributions cover diverse topics such as weights, measures, and coinage, legal practices, taxation, and cultural symbols. Each chapter investigates how, even as local communities adopted practices associated with Rome as a ruling power, local customs could, in turn, influence practices across the Empire.

By illuminating these reciprocal relationships, this book recontextualizes Roman standardization-not merely as a tool of imperial domination but as evidence of diverse socioeconomic practices and cross-cultural exchanges. It will be a valuable resource for scholars of ancient economic history, classical archaeology, and ancient law, as well as anyone interested in the economy and culture of Ancient Rome.

PART 3: Infrastructure: From Buildings and institutions to Socio-Economic Phenomena

CHAPTER 9: Centuries in the Making? Augustan City Foundations, Legal Denominations, and the Integration of 'Roman' Standards

Alexandru Martalogu

CHAPTER 10: Legal Standardization and Localism in Roman Africa. The Sufetes Africae and the Romanization process*

Filippo Incontro

CHAPTER 11: Commercial Buildings in Lugdunum (Lyon, FR) and Vienna (Vienne, FR): between Standardized Models and Local Adaptations (First Century BCE - Third Century CE)

Marine Lepee

PART 4: Landscape, Space and Scale

CHAPTER 12: Standardized Architecture and Economic Encounter in the Roman Empire

Miko Flohr

CHAPTER 13: The Standardization of Honorific Practices in Late Republican Italy. Some Notes on Serial Monuments and Elogia

Francesco Cassini

CHAPTER 14: Seeds of Convergence: Balancing Standardization and Regionalism in the Agrarian Economy of the Roman East

Nicolas Solonakis

AFTERWORD:

Seven Types of Uniformity

Nicholas Purcell