Water and Roman Urbanism

Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain

AvAdam Rogers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Del 355 i serien Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity

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Beskrivning

Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain offers a new perspective for investigating Roman settlement and how urban spaces were created and experienced by focusing on the relationship between settlement and water and the meanings attributed to these places. Rather than a descriptive approach to the urban fabric it emphasises social context and cultural meaning through interpretative frameworks of analysis. Central are the cultural and experiential implications of water forming part of towns, rather than economic and practical arguments, and the way in which these places were used and altered over time. The book emphasises a social approach and has considerable implications for our understanding of life in the Roman period as a whole.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-03-14
Mått:155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:1 280 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska, Latin
Serie:Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004247871

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Mer om författaren

Adam Rogers, Ph.D. (2009), University of Durham, has recently completed a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Leicester, and specialises in Roman archaeology. He has published Late Roman Towns in Britain: Rethinking Change and Decline (Cambridge, 2011) and numerous articles.

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"[This book] effectively challenges the overly positivist interpretive regimes in which Roman urbanism in Britain has been previously understood and demonstrates that human relationships to water, with particular emphasis on urban environments, are contingent and socially mediated beyond desires to rationalize and maximize." Eric E. Poehler, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.04.18.

Innehållsförteckning

List of figuresAcknowledgementsChapter 1IntroductionChapter 2Five Urban WaterscapesChapter 3Rivers, lakes and islands: towns, changing waterscapes and geographyChapter 4Waterfronts: the land/water interface and the construction of waterfront installationsChapter 5Wetlands: the materiality of land drainage and reclamation in townsChapter 6Conclusions: towns, water and peopleBibliographyIndex