Explores the ever-present experiences of risk that characterized the daily existence of individuals, communities, and societies in the late Roman world Living w

Modern risk studies have viewed the inhabitants of the ancient world as being both dominated by fate and exposed to fewer risks, but this very readable and grou

Capitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history, this book reinterprets

Using a variety of historical sources and methodological approaches, this book presents the first large-scale study of single men and women in the Roman world,

This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the 'small politics' of rural communities in the Late Roman world. It places the diverse fates of those commun