Roman Economy in Serbia - Agriculture

Pre-requisites: None

Course objectives: Candidates will be presented with the development of agriculture as a integral part of Roman economy in the provinces in present day Serbia. Distribution, types and organization of farmsteads (villae rustciae) and the character of agricultural production, will be presented to students

Course description: Villa rusticas (Villae Rusticae) and their relation to late LaTene settlements called aedificium; types and chronology of villa rusticas in Serbia; the problem of large estates called praedium and praetorium fundi; the connection of toponym “luka - port” with salus; horrea ”granaries”, the collection and distribution of wheat, relation of estates called capitolioum to farms; typology and caches of tools; agricultural cults ( Cerera, Procepina, Liber and Libera), sacral bread; vine farming.

Learning Outcomes: Essay and oral examination.

Literature/Reading:

• P. Garnsey, Food and Society in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge, 1999.
• M.J. Jones, Agriculture in Roman Britain: the Dynamics of Change, Research on Roman Britain 1960-89, London, 1989, 127-34.
• H.E. Hallam, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Vol 2: 1042-1350, Cambridge, 1988.
• V.Dinčev, Rimskite vili v dnešnata bъlgarska teritoriя, Sofiя
• A. Mc Kay, Houses, Villas and Palaces in the Roman World, Southamton 1977.
• M.Vasić, Römische Villen vom Typus der Villa rustica auf jugoslawischen Boden, Arch. Iug. XI, Beograd 1970
• I.Popović, Antičko oruđe od Gvožđa u Srbiji, Beograd 1988.
• V.Bitrakova – Grozdanova, Sur le culte de Déméter en Macedonia, Studia in honorem Liubae Ognenova – Marinova, Veliko Trnovo 2005.