Dr Richard Duncan-Jones FBA

Classics and Ancient History
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1992
Year of death
2024
Subjects
Classics

Summary

Dr Richard Duncan-Jones was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and at King's College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He has also been a Member of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton. He has published widely on Roman social and economic history. His books published by the Cambridge University Press are: The Economy of the Roman Empire (2nd edition, 1982), Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy (1990), and Money and Government in the Roman Empire (1994). He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1992. He was Chairman of Section H1 from 1997 to 2000.

Last post

Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge Fellow

Publications

Power and Privilege in Roman Society

Richard Duncan-Jones - Published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press

Money and government in the Roman Empire

Richard Duncan-Jones - Published in 1994 by Cambridge University Press

Structure and scale in the Roman economy

Richard Duncan-Jones - Published in 1990 by Cambridge University Press

The economy of the Roman Empire: Quantitative Studies

Richard Duncan Jones - Published in 1974 by Cambridge University Press

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