Legal and economical minorization in the Late Roman Empire
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The evidence suggests that in the Late Roman Empire the legal and economical minorization took place, especially among the Romans from the lower social classes. The main focus of the paper thus rests on the processes that eventually led to the aforementioned state of affairs. However, it would be difficult to describe the process of minorization in a Roman society as a whole. Taking that into account, the paper tries to characterize the subject of minorization mainly on the specific group of people that are most commonly found in the sources under the different variants of the term coloni. While the Late Roman colonate has already been discussed by many historians, the fact that there are different opinions among the scholars about the very nature of the colonate implies the need for futher research. Therefore on the example of the Late Roman colonate the paper tries to explain not only the way the minorization affected the people under the Late Roman colonate, but it also seeks to find out how exactly was the evident legal minorization of the coloni connected to their economical well-being. |
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