Local economies? : production and exchange of inland regions in late antiquity / edited by Luke Lavan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Local economies in late antiquity? : some thoughts / Luke Lavan -- The late antique economy : approaches, methods and conceptual issues / Alyssa A. Bandow -- The late antique economy : regional surveys / Andrea Zerbini -- The late antique economy : primary and secondary production / Andrea Zerbini -- The late antique economy : infrastructures of transport and retail / Alyssa A. Bandow -- The late antique economy : ceramics and trade / Stefano Costa -- A comparative perspective on the late antique economy / Mark Whittow -- Integration and disintegration in the late Roman economy : the role of markets, emperors, and aristocrats / Peter Sarris -- Production in inland regions -- Villas, taxes and trade in fourth century hispania / Kim Bowes -- The lessons of Gaulish sigillata and other finewares / Tamara Lewit -- Patterning the late antique economies of inland sicily in a Mediterranean context / Emanuele Vaccaro -- Diana Veteranorum and the dynamics of an inland economy / Elizabeth Fentress -- The economic expansion of the anatolian countryside in late antiquity : the coast versus inland regions / Adam Izdebski -- The urban economy in southern inland greater Syria from the seventh century to the end of the umayyads / Fanny Bessard -- Exchange in inland regions -- Balancing the scales : Romano-British pottery in early late antiquity / Jeremy Evans -- The supply and distribution of ceramic building material in Roman Britain / Phil Mills -- Imported and local pottery in late Roman Pannonia / Piroska Harshegyi and Katalin Ottomanyi -- Africa : patterns of consumption in coastal regions versus inland regions : the ceramic evidence (300-700 a.d.) / Michel Bonifay -- Pottery production and exchange in late antique syria (fourth-eighth century A.D.). a study of some imported and local wares / Agnes Vokaer -- Abstracts in French -- Indices -- Themes -- Index of places.