The Bread Makers - The Social and Professional Lives of Bakers in the Western Roman Empire - Bog af Jared T. Benton - Paperback

The Bread Makers - The Social and Professional Lives of Bakers in the Western Roman Empire - Jared T. Benton

Bread was the staple of the ancient Mediterranean diet. Inscriptions, Roman law, and material remains of Roman-period bakeries are combined to expose the cultural context of bread making, the economic context of commercial baking, the social hierarchy within the workforces of bakeries, and the socio-economic strategies of Roman bakers.