Risk in the Roman world / Jerry Toner.
Yer Numarası
A.IX/7644
ISBN
9781108723213 (paperback)
9781108481748 (hardback)
9781108592734 (epub)
9781108481748 (hardback)
9781108592734 (epub)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Kütüphane
Türk Tarih Kurumu Kütüphanesi
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
First published.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Fiziksel Niteleme
viii, 147 sayfa ; 23 cm.
Dizi
Key themes in ancient history
Genel Not
İndeks s. 144-147.
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Bibliyografya s. 134-143.
Okuma listesi s. 130-133.
Okuma listesi s. 130-133.
İçindekiler Notu
Risk and Uncertainty -- A World Full of Risks -- A Risk Culture -- Risk Management -- Moral Hazards : Constructing Risk -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet, vb.
“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 groundbreaking new book challenges these views. It shows that the Romans inhabited a world full of danger and also that they not only understood uncertainty but employed a variety of ways to help to affect future outcomes. The first section focuses on the range of cultural attitudes and traditional practices that served to help control risk, particularly among the non-elite population. The book also examines the increasingly sophisticated areas of expertise, such as the law, logistics and maritime loans, which served to limit uncertainty in a systematic manner. Religious expertise in the form of dream interpretation and oracles also developed new ways of dealing with the future and the implicit biases of these sources can reveal much about ancient attitudes to risk.” -- Arka kapak.
