Landowners And Tenants In Roman Egypt: The Social Relations Of Agriculture In The Oxyrhynchite Nome (Oxford Classical Monographs)

Landowners And Tenants In Roman Egypt: The Social Relations Of Agriculture In The Oxyrhynchite Nome (Oxford Classical Monographs)

Oxyrynchus in Egypt is the best documented city of the Roman empire. This book uses the thousands of papyrus documents found there to examine how its urban landowning class derived its wealth from the outlying rural lands, and the relationships they held with their tenants.