Aqueducts And Urbanism In Post Roman Hispania

Author : Javier Martínez- Jiménez (Archaeologist)
Publisher : Gorgias Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1463239157

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Aqueducts and Urbanism in Post-Roman Hispania by Javier Martínez- Jiménez (Archaeologist) Pdf

"Our current knowledge of Roman aqueducts across the Empire is patchy and uneven. Even if the development of "aqueduct studies" (where engineering, archaeology, architecture, hydraulics, and other disciplines converge) in recent years has improved this situation, one of the aspects which has been generally left aside is the chronology of their late antique phases and of their abandonment. In the Iberian peninsula, there is to date, no general overview of the Roman aqueducts, and all the available information is distributed across various publications, which as expected, hardly mention the late phases. This publication tackles this issue by analysing and reassessing the available evidence for the late phases of the Hispanic aqueducts by looking at a wide range of sources of information, many times derived from the recent interest shown by archaeologists and researchers on late antique urbanism"--

Author : Sofia Greaves,Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789257816

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Rome and the Colonial City by Sofia Greaves,Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Pdf

According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman.

Author : Els Rose
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031485619

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City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500 by Els Rose Pdf

Author : Michael J. Kelly,Michael Burrows
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781953035066

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Urban Interactions by Michael J. Kelly,Michael Burrows Pdf

This volume is dedicated to eliciting the interactions between localities across late antique and early medieval Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Significant research has been done in recent years to explore how late "Roman" and post-"Roman" cities, towns and other localities communicated vis-à-vis larger structural phenomena, such as provinces, empires, kingdoms, institutions and so on. This research has contributed considerably to our understanding of the place of the city in its context, but tends to portray the city as a necessarily subordinate conduit within larger structures, rather than an entity in itself, or as a hermeneutical object of enquiry. Consequently, not enough research has been committed to examining how local people and communities thought about, engaged with, and struggled against nearby or distant urban neighbors.Urban Interactions addresses this lacuna in urban history by presenting articles that apply a diverse spectrum of approaches, from archaeological investigation to critical analyses of historiographical and historical biases and developmental consideration of antagonisms between ecclesiastical centers. Through these avenues of investigation, this volume elucidates the relationship between the urban centers and their immediate hinterlands and neighboring cities with which they might vie or collaborate. This entanglement and competition, whether subterraneous or explicit across overarching political, religious or other macro categories, is evaluated through a broad geographical range of late "Roman" provinces and post-"Roman" states to maintain an expansive perspective of developmental trends within and about the city.

Author : Carlos Machado,Rowan Munnery,Rebecca Sweetman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429763120

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Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity by Carlos Machado,Rowan Munnery,Rebecca Sweetman Pdf

This volume considers “lived space” as a scholarly approach to the past, showing how spatial approaches can present innovative views of the world of Late Antiquity, integrating social, economic and cultural developments and putting centre stage this fundamental dimension of social life. Bringing together an international group of scholars working on areas as diverse as Britain, the Iberian Peninsula, Jordan and the Horn of Africa, this book includes burgeoning fields of study such as lived spaces in the context of ships and seafaring during this period. Chapters investigate the history, function and use of different spaces in their own right and identify the social and historical logic presiding over continuity and/or change. They also explore the fluidity of lived space in both its physical and conceptual dimensions, analysing issues like agency and intentionality as well as meaning and social relations. Space is the fundamental dimension of social life, the arena where it unfolds and the stage where social values and hierarchies are represented; analysis of space allows us to understand history through different means of shaping, occupying and controlling space. Considering Late Antiquity through a spatial perspective offers a complex and stimulating picture of this pivotal period, and this volume provides avenues for the development of further research and discussion in this area. Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity is a fascinating resource for students and scholars interested in space and spatiality in the late antique world, as well as archaeology, classical studies and late antique studies more generally.

Author : Javier Martínez Jiménez (Archaeologist),Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789258189

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Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City by Javier Martínez Jiménez (Archaeologist),Sam Ottewill-Soulsby Pdf

The Greco-Roman world is identified in the modern mind by its cities. This includes both specific places such as Athens and Rome, but also an instantly recognizable style of urbanism wrought in marble and lived in by teeming tunic-clad crowds. Selective and misleading this vision may be, but it speaks to the continuing importance these ancient cities have had in the centuries that followed and the extent to which they define the period in subsequent memory. Although there is much that is mysterious about them, the cities of the Roman Mediterranean are, for the most part, historically known. That the names and pasts of these cities remain known to us is the product of an extraordinary process of remembering and forgetting stretching back to antiquity that took place throughout the former Roman world. This volume tackles this subject of the survival and transformation of the ancient city through memory, drawing upon the methodological and theoretical lenses of memory studies and resilience theory to view the way the Greco-Roman city lived and vanished for the generations that separate the present from antiquity.This book analyzes the different ways in which urban communities of the post-Antique world have tried to understand and relate to the ancient city on their own terms, examining it as a process of forgetting as well as remembering. Many aspects of the ancient city were let go as time passed, but those elements that survived, that were actively remembered, have shaped the many understandings of what it was. In order to do so, this volume assembles specialists in multiple fields to bring their perspectives to bear on the subject through eleven case studies that range from late Antiquity to the mid-twentieth century, and from the Iberian Peninsula to Iran. Through the examination of archaeological remains, changing urban layouts and chronicles, travel guides and pamphlets, they track how the ancient city was made useful or consigned to oblivion.

Author : Michael Kulikowski
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801899492

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Late Roman Spain and Its Cities by Michael Kulikowski Pdf

This groundbreaking history of Spain in late antiquity sheds new light on the fall of the western Roman empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. Historian Michael Kulikowski draws on the most recent archeological and literary evidence in this fresh an enlightening account of the Iberian Peninsula from A.D. 300 to 600. In so doing, he provides a definitive narrative that integrates late antique Spain into the broader history of the Roman empire. Kulikowski begins with a concise introduction to the early history of Roman Spain, and then turns to the Diocletianic reforms of 293 and their long-term implications for Roman administration and the political ambitions of post-Roman contenders. He goes on to examine the settlement of barbarian peoples in Spain, the end of Roman rule, and the imposition of Gothic power in the fifth and sixth centuries. In parallel to this narrative account, Kulikowski offers a wide-ranging thematic history, focusing on political power, Christianity, and urbanism. Kulikowski’s portrait of late Roman Spain offers some surprising conclusions, finding that the physical and social world of the Roman city continued well into the sixth century despite the decline of Roman power. Winner of an Honorable Mention in the Association of American Publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Publishing Awards in Classics and Archeology

Author : Fikret Yegül,Diane Favro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 915 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521470711

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Roman Architecture and Urbanism by Fikret Yegül,Diane Favro Pdf

Investigates Roman built environments from architectonic and planning perspectives, while celebrating the achievements of the provinces as well as Italy.

Author : Pieter Houten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 0367708671

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Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal by Pieter Houten Pdf

The principal aims of Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire are to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of the urban systems of the Iberian Peninsula during the Early Empire and to explain why these systems looked the way they did. While some chapters focus on settlements that were cities or towns from a juridical point of view, the implications of using a purely functional definition of towns are also explored. Key themes include continuities and discontinuities between pre-Roman and Roman settlement patterns, the geographical distribution of cities belonging to various size brackets, economic relationships between self-governing cities and their territories and the role of cities as nodes in road systems and maritime networks. In addition, it is argued that a considerable number of self-governing communities in Roman Spain and Portugal were poly-centric rather than based on a single urban centre. The volume will be of interest to anyone working on Roman urbanism as well as those interested in the Iberian Peninsula in the Roman period.

Author : Helen Parkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134828135

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Roman Urbanism by Helen Parkins Pdf

The contributors to this volume provide an accessible and jargon-free insight into the notion of the Roman city; what shaped it, and how it both structured and reflected Roman society. Roman Urbanism challenges the established economic model for the Roman city and instead offers original and diverse approaches for examining Roman urbanization, bringing the Roman city into the nineties. Roman Urbanism is a lively and informative volume, particularly valuable in an age dominated by urban development.

Author : Alain Delattre,Marie Legendre,Petra Sijpesteijn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004386549

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Authority and Control in the Countryside by Alain Delattre,Marie Legendre,Petra Sijpesteijn Pdf

Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands.

Author : Trinidad Nogales Basarrate
Publisher : L'Erma Di Bretschneider
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture, Roman
ISBN : 8891323411

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Cities of Roman Hispania by Trinidad Nogales Basarrate Pdf

Este volumen presenta una puesta al dia de las ciudades hispanas mas notables de los tres territorios provinciales: Lusitania, Baetica y Tarraconensis. Se trata de un analisis, esencialmente urbanistico, para conocer las ultimas novedades de estas ciudades, algunas de ellas Patrimonio de la Humanidad en el presente. Cualquier estudioso o interesado en el proceso de urbanizacion de Hispania puede encontrar respuesta en este libro, siendo asi una util herramienta para la arqueologia romana. Este volumen, dado que es el resultado de un ciclo de conferencias, Ciudades Romanas de Hispania I, que tiene este curso 2021-2022 continuidad en otro nuevo ciclo con mas ciudades, tendra igualmente un segundo volumen.

Author : Rabun M. Taylor
Publisher : L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8882651002

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Public Needs and Private Pleasures by Rabun M. Taylor Pdf

A meticuously detailed investigation of Rome's practical solution to the problems of providing and distributing the city's water supply between the end of the Republic and Trajan's reign. Taylor's principal aims are to determine where and why aqueduct systems crossed the Tiber and to assess the function of the enigmatic Aqua Alsietia. An initial discussion of the technical and legal context for aqueduct planning is followed by a topographical inquiry into several specific aqueducts including the four earliest aqueduct river crossings: the Aqua Appia, Anio Velus, Aqua Marcia and the Aqua Virgo. Taylor also examines the expansion and organisation of water supply within the Transiberim, a heavily populated district of Rome to the west of the Tiber, and assesses its influence on Rome's wider urban policy.

Author : Peter J. Aicher
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0865162719

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Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome by Peter J. Aicher Pdf

Aicher has crafted an ideal introduction and a valuable field companion for navigating the Roman aqueducts. Features new maps, schematic drawings, photographs, and reprints of Ashby's line drawings.

Author : Katherine Wentworth Rinne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aqueducts
ISBN : 0300242816

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The Waters of Rome by Katherine Wentworth Rinne Pdf

"In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and scientific developments in aqueduct and fountain architecture helped turn a medieval backwater into the preeminent city of early modern Europe. Supported by the author's extensive topographical research, this book presents a unified vision of the city that links improvements to public and private water systems with political, religious, and social change. Between 1560 and 1630, in a spectacular burst of urban renewal, Rome's religious and civil authorities sponsored the construction of aqueducts, private and public fountains for drinking, washing, and industry, and the magnificent ceremonial fountains that are Rome's glory. Tying together the technological, sociopolitical, and artistic questions that faced the designers during an age of turmoil in which the Catholic Church found its authority threatened and the infrastructure of the city was in a state of decay, Rinne shows how these public works projects transformed Rome in a successful marriage of innovative engineering and strategic urban planning"--Publisher's description.