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The World of the Fullo

Work, Economy, and Society in Roman Italy

Miko Flohr author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:30th May '13

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The World of the 'Fullo' takes a detailed look at the fullers, craftsmen who dealt with high-quality garments, of Roman Italy. Analyzing the social and economic worlds in which the fullers lived and worked, it tells the story of their economic circumstances, the way they organized their workshops, the places where they worked in the city, and their everyday lives on the shop floor and beyond. Through focusing on the lower segments of society, Flohr uses everyday work as the major organizing principle of the narrative: the volume discusses the decisions taken by those responsible for the organization of work, and how these decisions subsequently had an impact on the social lives of people carrying out the work. It emphasizes how socio-economic differences between cities resulted in fundamentally different working lives for many of their people, and that not only were economic activities shaped by Roman society, they in turn played a key role in shaping it. Using an in-depth and qualitative analysis of material remains related to economic activities, with a combined study of epigraphic and literary records, this volume portrays an insightful view of the socio-economic history of urban communities in the Roman world.

An eminently readable examination of fullonicae and their workers pieced together from careful readings of literary and epigraphical texts, visual evidence, and detailed archaeological analyses of surviving fulleries. * Margaret L. Laird, Phoenix *

ISBN: 9780199659357

Dimensions: 241mm x 162mm x 26mm

Weight: 882g

422 pages