Public land in the Roman Republic : a social and economic history of the ager publicus
Roselaar, S.T.
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Roselaar, S. T. (2009, January 14). Public land in the Roman Republic : a social and economic history of the ager publicus. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/13401
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My PhD was part of the VICI project ‘Peasants, citizens, and soldiers in the effects of demographic growth in Roman Republican Italy (202-88 BC)’ carried out from 2004-2009 at Leiden University. First of all, I would like to thank, Paul Erdkamp, Simon Northwood, Saskia Hin, Jeremia Pelgrom, Rens Tacoma, and Luuk de Ligt, my fellow members of the project. Our discussions have greatly improved my thesis and I cannot thank them sufficiently for all the suggestions, comments, and moral support they have given me over the years. Luuk de Ligt, my doctoral supervisor, deserves my heartfelt thanks for the creation of the project, the constant attention he has given me and my fellow PhDs, all his insightful suggestions, comments, discussions, and his moral support that has sustained me over the last four years. I would like to thank Simon Northwood for his merciless correction of the English of not only this thesis, but of virtually every English piece I wrote over the last four years.
José Birker of the Leiden University History Department deserves thanks for her persisting and efficient administrative support of all PhDs in the department.
The staff at the Leiden University Library put up with my increasingly complex requests for books for four years.
I would like to Dominic Rathbone for his willingness to act as my external examiner and for his useful remarks on my thesis. Nathan Rosenstein read the whole manuscript, some parts more than once, and his constructive comments have saved me from many errors and oversimplifications. I also thank the Department of History at the Ohio State University, especially Chris Burton and Joby Abernathy, for their kind welcome and the efficient way in which they made me feel at home at the department during my stay at Columbus in the Winter Quarter of 2007.
For reading and commenting on parts of my thesis, as well as providing a warm welcome in England in the spring of 2008, I thank Guy Bradley (Cardiff University), Neville Morley (University of Bristol), and Jeremy Paterson (Newcastle). Fruitful suggestions were also offered by Josephine Quinn, Kurt Raaflaub, and John Rich during various discussions in Leiden and Athens.
Valuable information about taxes and rents collected from public land in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt was provided by Andrew Monson. I would also like to thank all the participants of the international conferences in Leiden, June 2007, and in Rome, January 2008, who gave valuable comments on the papers I presented there.
The community of PhDs at Leiden University provided a stimulating environment; Lydeke van Beek, Annelieke Dirks, Kim Beerden, Mark Heerink and Hugo Koning deserve special mention for their support during the past four years.
The staff at the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome (KNIR) made me feel welcome and provided an indispensable ‘retreat’ for the last stage of writing in May 2008.
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Financial support for this thesis was given by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), which made possible this project by a very generous VICI grant, and the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome.
It goes without saying, of course, that all views expressed in this thesis are my own, and that I am solely responsible for any mistakes that may remain.
