Luuk de Ligt

Luuk de Ligt is an expert on the history of Ancient Rome. He has translated lengthy passages of fundamental works of Roman jurisprudence and published several authoritative studies on the Roman Empire. De Ligt studies how markets functioned in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds, the demography of Roman Italy, the social structure of ancient cities, and the role of cities in the Roman Empire. He combines literary and legal sources with archaeological data, uses economic and demographic modelling, and compares the Roman Empire with other vast ancient empires, such as China.