Description

• Title:
  Textile Prices in Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts. Three Case Studies
• Creator:
  Milewski, Ireneusz
• Contributor:
  University of Gdańsk, Faculty of History, Institute of History, Department of Ancient History;
  ireneusz.milewski@ug.edu.pl
• Description:
  This text analyzes three early Byzantine source accounts on clothing prices from the beginning of the 5th to the early 7th centuries in Italy (Rome), Palestine (probably in Jerusalem), and Egypt (Alexandria). The compiled and discussed narrations were compared with other contemporary source reports, which feature analogical figures describing the amount of prices, wages, taxes, and other values or distances. By making a comparative analysis, the author came to the conclusion that these data are recurrent, and, therefore, unreliable. This observation also applies to the clothing prices discussed in the text, which, undoubtedly, should be considered topical.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2021.08.27;
  2020.12.23
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe;
  10
• Subject:
  early Byzantium;
  late Roman economy;
  early Byzantine hagiography;
  prices in early Byzantium
• Identifier:
  2084-140X;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/38911 ;
  2449-8378;
  10.18778/2084-140X.10.19
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
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