Honor Among Thieves : Craftsmen, Merchants, and Associations in Roman and Late Roman Egypt /
Philip F. Venticinque's new volume examines associations of craftsmen in the framework of ancient economics and transaction costs. Scholars havelong viewed such associations primarily as social or religious groupsthat provided mutual support, proper burial, and sociability, and spaces where non...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2016]
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Charters, transaction costs, and trust
- The business of trust
- Reputation management
- Reputation, rhetoric, and participation
- Associations in legal thought and practice
- Associations in Late Roman Egypt
- Conclusion.