Monnaies et monétarisation dans les campagnes de la Gaule du Nord et de l’Est, de l’âge du Fer à l’Antiquité tardive

In discussions about the ancient economy, it is still customary to oppose city-dwellers, markets and the monetary economy on the one hand, to autarchic peasants practising barter and using money only on rare occasions on the other hand. However, in the last decades, this view has been increasingly challenged by new archaeological research. Building on recent and sometimes unpublished data, this book seeks to shed new light on coin circulation and money use in the countryside in Northern Gaul. 

A series of case studies addresses the topic in various regions from France, Switzerland, Belgium, as well as Luxembourg, Germany and the Netherlands. Furthermore, the problem is tackled in the “longue durée”, from the 2nd c. BC to the 5th c. AD, in order to understand fully the effects, first of the Roman conquest on Iron Age Gaul, second of the transition from the Principate to Late Antiquity. 

Papers are in French and English.