Life In Roman London

Author : Simon Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0752465368

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Life in Roman London by Simon Webb Pdf

The history of Roman London approached in an entirely new way, focusing on the geography of daily life The rise and fall of one of the most important Roman cities in northern Europe is charted graphically by the use of maps and diagrams, showing at a glance the various stages in its development. Rather than focusing upon a handful of important figures such as procurators and statesmen, this book explores the lives and concerns of the ordinary citizens. Many books about Roman history seem to be preoccupied with basilicas, palaces, grand houses, statues, and mosaics; this book looks instead at the shops, houses, and streets in which the majority of the 60,000 inhabitants of the city spent their lives. In doing so, it reveals a city very different from the familiar images of a clean, white, classical metropolis.

Author : Richard Hingley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350047327

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Londinium: A Biography by Richard Hingley Pdf

*** Winner of the PROSE Award (2019) for Classics *** This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical evidence for London under the Romans, assessing the city in the context of its province and the wider empire. He explores the multiple functions of Londinium over time, considering economy, industry, trade, status and urban infrastructure, but also looking at how power, status, gender and identity are reflected through the materiality of the terrain and waterscape of the evolving city. A particular focus of the book is the ritual and religious context in which these activities occurred. Hingley looks at how places within the developing urban landscape were inherited and considers how the history and meanings of Londinium built upon earlier associations from its recent and ancient past. As well as drawing together a much-needed synthesis of recent scholarship and material evidence, Hingley offers new perspectives that will inspire future debate and research for years to come. This volume not only provides an accessible introduction for undergraduate students and anyone interested in the ancient city of London, but also an essential account for more advanced students and scholars.

Author : John Morris
Publisher : Phoenix
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0753806606

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Londinium by John Morris Pdf

At the time of the Roman invasion of Britain, the site of London was an untamed, uninhabited forest, and the victorious fleet founded Londinium, not as a garrison or a fortress, but as a centre of government. This is the story of earliest London from pre-Roman times to the age of Arthur.

Author : Martin Millett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521428645

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The Romanization of Britain by Martin Millett Pdf

This book sets out to provide a new synthesis of recent archaeological work in Roman Britain.

Author : Guy De la Bédoyère
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300207194

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The Real Lives of Roman Britain by Guy De la Bédoyère Pdf

An innovative, informative, and entertaining history of Roman Britain told through the lives of individuals in all walks of life The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear sense of individual lives. This book is the first to infuse the story of Britannia with a beating heart, the first to describe in detail who its inhabitants were and their place in our history. A lifelong specialist in Romano-British history, Guy de la Bédoyère is the first to recover the period exclusively as a human experience. He focuses not on military campaigns and imperial politics but on individual, personal stories. Roman Britain is revealed as a place where the ambitious scramble for power and prestige, the devout seek solace and security through religion, men and women eke out existences in a provincial frontier land. De la Bédoyère introduces Fortunata the slave girl, Emeritus the frustrated centurion, the grieving father Quintus Corellius Fortis, and the brilliant metal worker Boduogenus, among numerous others. Through a wide array of records and artifacts, the author introduces the colorful cast of immigrants who arrived during the Roman era while offering an unusual glimpse of indigenous Britons, until now nearly invisible in histories of Roman Britain.

Author : Lindsay Allason-Jones
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124195491

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Daily Life in Roman Britain by Lindsay Allason-Jones Pdf

Provides informational essays on various aspects of Roman Britain life, and covers the military, civilian, country living, domestic issues, religion, and other related topics.

Author : Lacey M. Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107047570

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The Origin of Roman London by Lacey M. Wallace Pdf

Drawing on both published and archived archaeological evidence, this copiously illustrated book revolutionises our understanding of early Roman London.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:650421823

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Roman Britain by Anonim Pdf

Author : Guy de la Bédoyère
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780500771846

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Roman Britain: A New History by Guy de la Bédoyère Pdf

“Lucid and engaging . . . should take pride of place on the bookshelf of specialists and non-specialists interested in Roman Britain.” —Minerva This illuminating account of Britain as a Roman province sets the Roman conquest and occupation of the island within the larger context of Romano-British society and how it functioned. The author first outlines events from the Iron Age period immediately preceding the conquest in AD 43 to the emperor Honorius’s advice to the Britons in 410 to fend for themselves. He then tackles the issues facing Britons after the absorption of their culture by an invading army, including the role of government and the military in the province, religion, commerce, technology, and daily life. For this revised edition, the text, illustrations, and bibliography have been updated to reflect the latest discoveries and research in recent years. The superb illustrations feature reconstruction drawings, dramatic aerial views of Roman remains, and images of Roman villas, mosaics, coins, pottery, and sculpture.

Author : Ken Dark,Petra Dark
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752482668

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Life in Roman Britain by Ken Dark,Petra Dark Pdf

What was it like to live in Roman Britain? What sort of house would you have lived in? What sort of clothes would you have worn? This book takes us back in time to see what it was really like to live in Roman Britain, what kind of sights and smells would be around us, and what our daily lives would have involved.

Author : Patricia Southern
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445609256

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Roman Britain by Patricia Southern Pdf

The most authoritative history of Roman Britain ever published for the general reader.

Author : Ciaran Murtagh
Publisher : Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0008163774

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Roman Life in Britain: Band 12/Copper (Collins Big Cat) by Ciaran Murtagh Pdf

When the Roman Emperor Claudius invaded in 43 AD, life for people in Britain changed - a lot! This book will show you how people in Roman Britain lived, travelled, ate, dressed and even washed themselves. You'll also find out why the Romans came to Britain in the first place - and why they had to leave in the end. - Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina. - Text type - An information book. - The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information. - The glossary and index on pages 30 and 31 can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further. - Curriculum links - History

Author : Hannah Platts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350114326

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Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome by Hannah Platts Pdf

Classicists have long wondered what everyday life was like in ancient Greece and Rome. How, for example, did the slaves, visitors, inhabitants or owners experience the same home differently? And how did owners manipulate the spaces of their homes to demonstrate control or social hierarchy? To answer these questions, Hannah Platts draws on a diverse range of evidence and an innovative amalgamation of methodological approaches to explore multisensory experience – auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory and visual – in domestic environments in Rome, Pompeii and Herculaneum for the first time, from the first century BCE to the second century CE. Moving between social registers and locations, from non-elite urban dwellings to lavish country villas, each chapter takes the reader through a different type of room and offers insights into the reasons, emotions and cultural factors behind perception, recording and control of bodily senses in the home, as well as their sociological implications. Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome will appeal to all students and researchers interested in Roman daily life and domestic architecture.

Author : Ernst Emanuel Mayer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674070103

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The Ancient Middle Classes by Ernst Emanuel Mayer Pdf

Our image of the Roman world is shaped by the writings of Roman statesmen and upper class intellectuals. Yet most of the material evidence we have from Roman times—art, architecture, and household artifacts from Pompeii and elsewhere—belonged to, and was made for, artisans, merchants, and professionals. Roman culture as we have seen it with our own eyes, Emanuel Mayer boldly argues, turns out to be distinctly middle class and requires a radically new framework of analysis. Starting in the first century bce, ancient communities, largely shaped by farmers living within city walls, were transformed into vibrant urban centers where wealth could be quickly acquired through commercial success. From 100 bce to 250 ce, the archaeological record details the growth of a cosmopolitan empire and a prosperous new class rising along with it. Not as keen as statesmen and intellectuals to show off their status and refinement, members of this new middle class found novel ways to create pleasure and meaning. In the décor of their houses and tombs, Mayer finds evidence that middle-class Romans took pride in their work and commemorated familial love and affection in ways that departed from the tastes and practices of social elites.

Author : Toni Mount
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445615646

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Everyday Life in Medieval London by Toni Mount Pdf

Step back in time to medieval London to find out about the lives of those working and living there.