Economy, Family, and Society from Rome to Islam: A Critical Edition, English Translation, and Study of Bryson's Management of the Estate - Couverture souple

Swain, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1107615135 ISBN 13 : 9781107615137

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Bryson's Management of the Estate (Oikonomikos Logos) offers advice on the key private concerns of the Roman elite: getting rich, managing slaves, love and marriage, and bringing up children. This estate owner is a farmer and a merchant, making his money through good and effective business. His wife is co-owner of the estate and their love promotes material prosperity. Their child needs twenty-four hour supervision in 'all his affairs'. Bryson's book was almost certainly written in the mid-first century AD, but survives mainly in Arabic. It had a profound effect on Islamic thinking on the economy and on marriage, but is virtually unknown to classicists. This new edition of the text together with the first English translation will appeal to Roman social and economic historians, students of imperial Greek literature and all those interested in the development of Greco-Roman thought in the Islamic empire of the Middle Ages.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Simon Swain is Chair of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Warwick. He is the author of a number of well-known studies of the Greek literature of the Roman period and is co-editor (with Jaś Elsner and Stephen Harrison) of Severan Culture (Cambridge, 2007).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107615135
• ISBN 13: 9781107615137
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 588