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| Semester | spring semester 2021 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Sabine Huebner (sabine.huebner@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This year's visiting professor in Ancient History, Prof. Dr. Andrew Monson from New York University in Manhattan, is offering on May 6, 2021 a workshop on "Seeing Like a State: Fiscal Regimes in the Ancient World”. Tribute, rents, taxes, and credit, these are the means by which the state acquires the financial means to pursue its goals as an organization, autonomous from society. The historians Richard Bonney and Mark Ormrod constructed a typology of tribute state, domain state, tax state, and fiscal state and identified historical cases from early medieval to modern Europe. More recently, other historians have sought to extend and modify this framework with a global and deep historical perspective, including the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. In this workshop, we will identify what tribute, rents, taxes, and credit are, what corollaries they have for political organization in ancient societies, and what causes them to change. We will focus on case studies from Late-Period Egypt, classical Greece, the Hellenistic world, and Republican Rome. |
| Bibliography | H. Klinkott, S. Kubisch, and R. Müller-Wollermann, eds. Geschenke und Steuern, Zölle und Tribute. Antike Abgabenformen in Anspruch und Wirklichkeit (Leiden 2007), chapters by Radner, Klinkott, Müller-Wollermann, Schuler, Wolters. P. Fawcett, “When I Squeeze You with Eisphorai”: Taxes and Tax Policy in Classical Athens.” Hesperia 85 (2016) 153-99. N. Kaye, “Taxation in the Greco-Roman World: The Hellenistic East.” In Oxford Handbooks Online. https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/. A. Monson and W. Scheidel, eds. Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States (Cambridge 2015), introduction and chapters by Jursa and Morena Garcia, Tan, Mackil, Ober. A. Monson, “Egyptian Fiscal History in a World of Warring States,” Journal of Egyptian History 8 (2015) 1-36. L. Migeotte, Les finances des cités grecques (Paris 2015). C. Nicolet, Tributum: Recherches sur la fiscalité directe sous la république romaine (Bonn 1976). J. Tan, Power and Public Finance at Rome, 264-49 BC (Oxford 2017). H. van Wees, Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens (London 2013). |
| Comments | Für die Teilnahme gibt es einen Kreditpunkt. Der Workshop wird voraussichtlich als Hybrid-Veranstaltung angeboten. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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No dates available. Please contact the lecturer.
| Modules |
Ancient History: Recommendations (PhD subject: Ancient History) Modul: Vertiefung in Alter Geschichte (Master's degree subject: Ancient History) Modul: Vertiefung in Geschichte und Altertumswissenschaften MA (Master's degree subject: Ancient History) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Aktive Teilnahme am Workshop und die Abfassung eines 5-seitigen Essays im Anschluss. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Alte Geschichte |