The world of the Fullo : work, economy, and society in Roman Italy / Miko Flohr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flohr, Miko, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Oxford studies on the Roman economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conditions.

Rome--Economic conditions--30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Economic conditions.

Rome--Social conditions--30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Dyes and dyeing--Wool--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).

Dyes and dyeing.

Dyes and dyeing--Wool.

Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).

Cleaning and dyeing industry--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).

Cleaning and dyeing industry.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

xvi, 401 pages : illustrations, map, plans ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Croydon : CPI Group (UK) Ltd.

Place of Publication:

Oxford (Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP) : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

This innovative monograph series reflects a vigorous revival of interest in the ancient economy, focusing on the Mediterranean world under Roman rule (c. 100 BC to AD 350). Carefully quantified archaeological and documentary data will be integrated to help ancient historians, economic historians, and archaeologists think about economic behaviour collectively rather than from separate perspectives. The volumes will include a substantial comparative element and thus be of interest to historians of other periods and places. The World of the Fullo takes a detailed look at the fullers, craftsmen who dealt with high-quality garments, of Roman Italy. Analysing 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

1.1 The Roman economy debate 6

1.2 Fullones and fullonicae: evidence for fulling 12

1.3 Contextualizing the data 35

1.4 History of research 43

2 The economy of fulling 52

2.1 The textile economy of Roman Italy 53

2.2 Who needs the fullo? Understanding demand 57

2.3 Approaching the evidence 72

2.4 A geography of consumption 84

2.5 Discussion 93

3 The rational workshop 96

3.1 The fulling process 98

3.2 Investing in equipment 121

3.3 Organizing the shop floor 149

3.4 Running the workshop 170

3.5 Discussion 179

4 Fulling and the urban environment 181

4.1 The environmental effects of fulling 184

4.2 Living and working in a fullonica 189

4.3 Fulling and public space 211

4.4 The urban geography of fulling 227

4.5 Discussion 239

5 Populating the fullonica 242

5.1 Towards a social network perspective 242

5.2 Social interaction on the shop floor 246

5.3 The social basis of staff networks 265

5.4 Differentiation and hierarchy 273

5.5 Discussion 286

6 Fullones and Roman society 288

6.1 Hierarchy and autonomy 289

6.2 Social ties with the urban community 309

6.3 Being a 'fullo' 322

6.4 Discussion 346.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0199659354

9780199659357

OCLC:

853505300

Publisher Number:

99954828957