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José Remesal Rodríguez Editor

José Remesal Rodríguez has been Professor of Ancient History at the University of Barcelona since 1988. He is founder of the ‘Centro para el Estudio de la Interdependencia Provincial en la Antigüedad Clásica’ (CEIPAC), with projects in Austria, Germany, Italy, Libya and Tunisia. His work has been published internationally in more than 160 scientific articles. The main subject of his research is the interaction between political and economic life in the Roman world, based on the study of the production, distribution and consumption of food. ;

Jordi Pérez González is a postdoctoral researcher ‘Juan de la Cierva-Formación’ at the University of Girona (Department of History and Art History). He received his Doctorate from the University of Barcelona, obtaining the Extraordinary Doctorate Award (2017). He was a research technician in the CEIPAC group during the period 2013-2020. As well as numerous journal articles he is the author of Sumptuary Specialists and Consumer Elites in Rome’s world order (2021).