Kim Bowes

Biographic Data

ID1601355
NAMEKim Bowes
GIVEN NAMESKim
FAMILY NAMEBowes
SIGNATUREBOWES K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pennsylvania
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • War and Community in Late Antiquity

    Open AccessKim Bowes, Ellen Muehlberger et al.BOOKWar and Community in Late Antiquity2026

    Late Antiquity (ca. 250–600 CE) was a world at war: barbarian migrations, civil wars, raids, and increasingly porous frontiers affected millions of its inhabitants. While military and political historians have long grappled with this history, scholars of late antique society and culture rarely interrogate the consequences of near constant warfare on civilian populations, fighting forces, and the built environment. War and Community in Late Antiqu…

  • Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent

    Kim BowesBOOKSurviving Rome2025

    A radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economy The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labor. Focusing on the working majority, Kim Bowes tells the stories of people like the tenant farmer Epimachus, F…

  • The “Health Problem” in Roman Economic History: A Prolegomenon

    Open AccessKim BowesCHAPTERModels, Methods, and Morality2024

  • Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity

    Open AccessMiko Flohr, Kim BowesBOOKValuing Labour in Greco-Roman…2023

    How did ancient Greeks and Romans regard work? It has long been assumed that elite thinkers disparaged physical work, and that working people rarely commented on their own labors. The papers in this volume challenge these notions by investigating philosophical, literary and working people’s own complex ideas about what it meant to work. From Plato’s terminology of labor to Roman prostitutes’ self-proclaimed pride in their work, these chapters fin…

  • Practice beyond category: Archaeologies of Labor

    Kim BowesARTICLEWorld Archaeology2023References: 29

  • Tracking liquid savings at Pompeii: The coin hoard data

    Open AccessKim BowesARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2022References: 24

    This article examines the newly published data on coin hoards from Pompeii, focusing on coins and other objects found on victims, and hoards from so-called savings boxes. Most of the work on savings or capital in the Roman world has focused on the size and composition of elite fortunes and the nature and extent of credit and monetization writ large. The article uses the Pompeii coin data set to examine the extent and nature of liquid savings held…

  • Roman agriculture from above and below

    Kim BowesCHAPTERAncient History from Below2021

    We’ve often imagined that Romans engaged in two different sets of agricultural practices—peasant subsistence and elite surplus production for the market. This chapter suggests that the binary is overstated. New work on the agronomic texts penned by elites as well as the material remains from smallholders describes a world of shared agricultural praxis, where the fundamental, and particularly Roman, techniques of soil and water maintenance, intens…

  • Tracking consumption at Pompeii: The graffiti lists

    Open AccessKim BowesARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2021References: 16

    This paper examines five graffiti expense lists from Pompeii for information on the habits of consumption in the Vesuvian cities. It is intended as a contribution to the growing literature on economic well-being in Pompeii, focusing on the diet and consumption strategies of the nonelite Roman majority. These lists provide rare quantitative evidence for a portion of a whole diet, as well as nonfood expenses. They also shed light on the place of ce…

  • Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective

    Corisande Fenwick, C G Fenwick et al.BOOKEarly Islamic North Africa2020

    This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…

  • Villas, Taxes and Trade in Fourth Century Hispania

    Kim BowesCHAPTERLocal Economies?2015

    Many current models of the Roman economy are predicated on a bleak Late Antiquity, including Hopkins’ “taxes and trade” model. These models have yet to reckon with an uptick in economic matrices in the early 4th. This article addresses one piece of this puzzle, namely, expansion of villa construction in Hispania. The articles argues that this expansion was tied to increased imperial presence and intensified taxation, and produced a band of social…

  • Excavating the Roman peasant II: Excavations at Case Nuove, Cinigiano (GR)

    Open AccessEmanuele Vaccaro, Mariaelena Ghisleni et al.ARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2013Cited by: 5References: 35

    This report details the survey, excavations and materials analysis carried out at Case Nuove (GR) in Tuscany, a site identified by surface survey as a possible rural house, but which excavation and materials analysis suggest was a small-scale agro-processing point of late Republican date. Through accompanying analysis of pollen and land-use data, the article considers the problems this type of site — the stand-alone agro-processing point — presen…

  • Preliminary report on Sofiana/ mansio Philosophiana in the hinterland of Piazza Armerina

    Open AccessKim Bowes, Mariaelena Ghisleni et al.ARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2011Cited by: 1

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  • Excavating the Roman Peasant I: Excavations at Pievina (Gr)

    Open AccessMariaelena Ghisleni, Emanuele Vaccaro et al.ARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2011Cited by: 5References: 31

    Begun in 2009, the Roman Peasant Project was designed to excavate the smallest sites found in field survey and to analyse the diet, economies, land use and landscapes of the Roman peasant. The Project's excavations at the site of Pievina are presented here, and suggest a more complex image of Roman peasant life in the late Republic and late antiquity than current assumptions would anticipate, including surplus production, a high degree of monetiz…

  • Early Christian Archaeology: A State of the Field

    Open AccessKim BowesARTICLEReligion Compass2008References: 50

    This article considers the history and trajectory of early Christian archaeology. Focusing principally on the built environment, it addresses the status of research on third-century Christiandomus ecclesiaeor house churches, urban topography, Christian euergetism, pagan/Christian temple conversion, monasticism and pilgrimage, parish churches, and rural Christianity. It suggests that this largely conservative field continues to wrestle with its re…

  • Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Perspectives

    Kim Bowes, Michael KulikowskiBOOKHispania in Late Antiquity2005

  • Rethinking the later Roman landscape

    Open AccessKim Bowes, Adam GutteridgeARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2005Cited by: 4

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  • An amphitheatre and its afterlives: Survey and excavation in the Durres amphitheatre

    Open AccessKim Bowes, Afrim Hoti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2003Cited by: 3

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  • Santa Maria in Civita revisited

    Open AccessKim Bowes, Richard HodgesARTICLEPapers of the British School at…2002References: 3

    UNA RILETTURA DI SANTA MARIA IN CIVITA Questa nota riesamina l'archeologia del sito di nono secolo situato in cima alla collina di Santa Maria in Civita e giunge alia conclusione, sulla base di quanto ora visibile — risultato di un'intensa attivita agricola —, che il sito era occupato da tre unita separate, una chiesa e due comprensori residenziali

  • Ivory Lists: Consular diptychs, Christian appropriation and polemics of time in Late Antiquity

    Open AccessKim BowesARTICLEArt History2001

    This article offers a new interpretation of the function of ivory consular diptychs. An examination of ancient texts and visual sources show that consular diptychs originally held fasti consulares , or consular lists, within their leaves. This function forces us to re‐evaluate the significance of the images displayed on diptych covers, and reveals that the consular diptych and even the consulate itself were connected to Late Antiquity’s abiding o…

  • New excavations in the East Church at Halutza (Elusa): Preliminary report

    Open AccessHaim Goldfus, Benny Arubas et al.ARTICLEJournal of Roman Archaeology2000Cited by: 3References: 1

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