Nicholas Purcell (Oxford): Workshop - Taking a tenth: religion and taxation at Rome

Date
Thu November 2nd 2017, 12:15 - 2:00pm
Event Sponsor
Department of Classics
Location
Building 110, Rm 112
Nicholas Purcell (Oxford): Workshop - Taking a tenth: religion and taxation at Rome

This talk is an exercise in what one might call qualitative economic history, or the history of economic culture, and it is concerned with the strange practices of the decuma in Roman thought. This workshop will include a discussion of a new inscription, which is likely to unknown to the audience.

Prof. Nicholas Purcell is the Camden Professor of Ancient History at Bradenose College, Oxford. He has written extensively on a wide range of topics in Roman History, from the anthropology of buying and selling in Antiquity to Roman religion. He is famously co-author of The Corrupting Sea, which re-situated the Mediterranean in new contexts.

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