Materialising Roman Histories

Author : Astrid Van Oyen,Martin Pitts
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785706790

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Materialising Roman Histories by Astrid Van Oyen,Martin Pitts Pdf

The Roman period witnessed massive changes in the human-material environment, from monumentalised cityscapes to standardised low-value artefacts like pottery. This book explores new perspectives to understand this Roman ‘object boom’ and its impact on Roman history. In particular, the book’s international contributors question the traditional dominance of ‘representation’ in Roman archaeology, whereby objects have come to stand for social phenomena such as status, facets of group identity, or notions like Romanisation and economic growth. Drawing upon the recent material turn in anthropology and related disciplines, the essays in this volume examine what it means to materialise Roman history, focusing on the question of what objects do in history, rather than what they represent. In challenging the dominance of representation, and exploring themes such as the impact of standardisation and the role of material agency, Materialising Roman History is essential reading for anyone studying material culture from the Roman world (and beyond).

Author : Astrid Van Oyen,Martin Pitts
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785706776

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Materialising Roman Histories by Astrid Van Oyen,Martin Pitts Pdf

The Roman period witnessed massive changes in the human-material environment, from monumentalised cityscapes to standardised low-value artefacts like pottery. This book explores new perspectives to understand this Roman ‘object boom’ and its impact on Roman history. In particular, the book’s international contributors question the traditional dominance of ‘representation’ in Roman archaeology, whereby objects have come to stand for social phenomena such as status, facets of group identity, or notions like Romanisation and economic growth. Drawing upon the recent material turn in anthropology and related disciplines, the essays in this volume examine what it means to materialise Roman history, focusing on the question of what objects do in history, rather than what they represent. In challenging the dominance of representation, and exploring themes such as the impact of standardisation and the role of material agency, Materialising Roman History is essential reading for anyone studying material culture from the Roman world (and beyond).

Author : Ray Laurence
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415505925

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Roman Archaeology for Historians by Ray Laurence Pdf

Roman Archaeology for Historians provides an accessible guide to the development of archaeology as a discipline and how the use of archaeological evidence of the Roman world can enrich the study of ancient history, whilst at the same time encouraging the integration of material evidence into the study of the period's history. This work is a key resource for students of ancient history, and for those studying the archaeology of the Roman period.

Author : Jeremy Tanner,Andrew Gardner
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800083981

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Materialising the Roman Empire by Jeremy Tanner,Andrew Gardner Pdf

Materialising the Roman Empire defines an innovative research agenda for Roman archaeology, highlighting the diverse ways in which the Empire was made materially tangible in the lives of its inhabitants. The volume explores how material culture was integral to the processes of imperialism, both as the Empire grew, and as it fragmented, and in doing so provide up-to-date overviews of major topics in Roman archaeology. Each chapter offers a critical overview of a major field within the archaeology of the Roman Empire. The book’s authors explore the distinctive contribution that archaeology and the study of material culture can make to our understanding of the key institutions and fields of activity in the Roman Empire. The initial chapters address major technologies which, at first glance, appear to be mechanisms of integration across the Roman Empire: roads, writing and coinage. The focus then shifts to analysis of key social structures oriented around material forms and activities found all over the Roman world, such as trade, urbanism, slavery, craft production and frontiers. Finally, the book extends to more abstract dimensions of the Roman world: art, empire, religion and ideology, in which the significant themes remain the dynamics of power and influence. The whole builds towards a broad exploration of the nature of imperial power and the inter-connections that stimulated new community identities and created new social divisions.

Author : Martin Pitts
Publisher : Amsterdam Archaeological Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Classical antiquities
ISBN : 9463728201

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Roman Object Revolution by Martin Pitts Pdf

This book explores a major step-change in Eurasian history: the revolutionary boom in standardised objects at the start of the Roman era.

Author : Gardner TANNER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1800084005

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Materialising the Roman Empire by Gardner TANNER Pdf

Author : Kimberly Cassibry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780190921897

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Destinations in Mind by Kimberly Cassibry Pdf

On the road : from Gades to Rome on the itinerary cups -- At the Games : charioteers and gladiators on spectacle cups -- On the border : Hadrian's wall on the Fort Pans -- By the sea : Baiae and Puteoli on the Bay Bottles.

Author : Sam Willis,James Daybell
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786497741

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Histories of the Unexpected: The Romans by Sam Willis,James Daybell Pdf

Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before. Traditionally, the Romans have been understood in a straightforward way but the period really comes alive if you take an unexpected approach to its history. Yes, emperors, the development of civilisation and armies all have a fascinating history... but so too do tattoos, collecting, fattening, recycling, walking, poison, fish, inkwells and wicked stepmothers! Each of these subjects is equally fascinating in its own right, and each sheds new light on the traditional subjects and themes that we think we know so well.

Author : J. P. Toner
Publisher : The Oleander Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 090667249X

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Rethinking Roman History by J. P. Toner Pdf

What is the study of Roman history all about? What are its aims? What is its place within the discipline of Classics? These and many other questions are asked by Jerry Toner who has seen many changes in the field of Roman history since he first emerged from Cambridge as a budding Roman historian. This short book looks at the transformations that have taken place in research methodology and in the nature of the discipline in recent times. One for the undergraduate.

Author : Irene Selsvold,Lewis Webb
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789251371

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Beyond the Romans by Irene Selsvold,Lewis Webb Pdf

This latest volume in the TRAC Themes in Theoretical Roman Archaeology series takes up posthuman theoretical perspectives to interpret Roman material culture. These perspectives provide novel and compelling ways of grappling with theoretical problems in Roman archaeology producing new knowledge and questions about the complex relationships and interactions between humans and non-humans in Roman culture and society. Posthumanism constitutes a multitude of theoretical positions characterised by common critiques of anthropocentrism and human exceptionalism. In part, they react to the dominance of the linguistic turn in humanistic sciences. These positions do not exclude “the human”, but instead stress the mutual relationship between matter and discourse. Moreover, they consider the agency of “non-humans”, e.g., animals, material culture, landscapes, climate, and ideas, their entanglement with humans, and the situated nature of research. Posthumanism has had substantial impacts in several fields (including critical studies, archaeology, feminist studies, even politics) but have not yet emerged in any fulsome way in Classical Studies and Classical Archaeology. This is the first volume on these themes in Roman Archaeology, aimed at providing valuable perspectives into Roman myth, art and material culture, displacing and complicating notions of human exceptionalism and individualist subjectivity. Contributions consider non-human agencies, particularly animal, material, environmental, and divine agencies, critiques of binary oppositions and gender roles, and the Anthropocene. Ultimately, the papers stress that humans and non-humans are entangled and imbricated in larger systems: we are all post-human.

Author : Marko A. Janković,Marko Jankovic
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527512276

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Reflections of Roman Imperialisms by Marko A. Janković,Marko Jankovic Pdf

The papers collected in this volume provide invaluable insights into the results of different interactions between “Romans” and Others. Articles dealing with cultural changes within and outside the borders of Roman Empire highlight the idea that those very changes had different results and outcomes depending on various social, political, economic, geographical and chronological factors. Most of the contributions here focus on the issues of what it means to be Roman in different contexts, and show that the concept and idea of Roman-ness were different for the various populations that interacted with Romans through several means of communication, including political alliances, wars, trade, and diplomacy. The volume also covers a huge geographical area, from Britain, across Europe to the Near East and the Caucasus, but also provides information on the Roman Empire through eyes of foreigners, such as the ancient Chinese.

Author : Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez,Alexandra Gugliemi
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785706059

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Romans and Barbarians Beyond the Frontiers by Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez,Alexandra Gugliemi Pdf

This first thematic volume of the new series TRAC Themes in Roman Archaeology brings renowned international experts to discuss different aspects of interactions between Romans and ‘barbarians’ in the northwestern regions of Europe. Northern Europe has become an interesting arena of academic debate around the topics of Roman imperialism and Roman:‘barbarian’ interactions, as these areas comprised Roman provincial territories, the northern frontier system of the Roman Empire (limes), the vorlimes (or buffer zone), and the distant barbaricum. This area is, today, host to several modern European nations with very different historical and academic discourses on their Roman past, a factor in the recent tendency towards the fragmentation of approaches and the application of postcolonial theories that have favored the advent of a varied range of theoretical alternatives. Case studies presented here span across disciplines and territories, from American anthropological studies on transcultural discourse and provincial organization in Gaul, to historical approaches to the propagandistic use of the limes in the early 20th century German empire; from Danish research on warrior identities and Roman-Scandinavian relations, to innovative ideas on culture contact in Roman Ireland; and from new views on Romano-Germanic relations in Central European Barbaricum, to a British comparative exercise on frontier cultures. The volume is framed by a brilliant theoretical introduction by Prof. Richard Hingley and a comprehensive concluding discussion by Prof. David Mattingly.

Author : Jörg Rüpke,Greg Woolf
Publisher : Kohlhammer Verlag
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783170292260

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Religion in the Roman Empire by Jörg Rüpke,Greg Woolf Pdf

The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This volume provides a compelling view of central aspects of cult and religion in the Roman Empire, among them the distinction between public and private cult, the complex interrelations between different religious traditions, their mutually entangled developments and expansions, and the diversity of regional differences, rituals, religious texts and artefacts.

Author : John D.M. Green,Ros Henry
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787359062

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Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey' by John D.M. Green,Ros Henry Pdf

Olga Tufnell (1905–85) was a British archaeologist working in Egypt, Cyprus and Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s, a period often described as a golden age of archaeological discovery. For the first time, this book presents Olga’s account of her experiences in her own words. Based largely on letters home, the text is accompanied by dozens of photographs that shed light on personal experiences of travel and dig life at this extraordinary time. Introductory material by John D.M. Green and Ros Henry provides the social, historical, biographical and archaeological context for the overall narrative. The letters offer new insights into the social and professional networks and history of archaeological research, particularly for Palestine under the British Mandate. They provide insights into the role of foreign archaeologists, relationships with local workers and inhabitants, and the colonial framework within which they operated during turbulent times. This book will be an important resource for those studying the history of archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly for the sites of Qau el-Kebir, Tell Fara, Tell el-‘Ajjul and Tell ed-Duweir (ancient Lachish). Moreover, Olga’s lively style makes this a fascinating personal account of archaeology and travel in the interwar era.

Author : Robin Osborne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350226616

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A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity by Robin Osborne Pdf

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture and fashion. Many of our current attitudes to the world of things are shaped by ideas forged in classical antiquity. We now understand that we do not merely do things to objects, they do things to us. Reinterpreting objects in Greece and Rome casts new light on our understanding of ourselves and turns the ancient world upside down. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, UK. Volume 1 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte