Roman Sculpture From The North West Midlands

Author : Martin Henig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197262900
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Sculpture from the North West Midlands written by Martin Henig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive catalogue of the sculpture from this region of Roman Britain, including the first proper record of the sculpture from Wroxeter. The sculptures, all in local sandstone, were carved locally and provide an index of Romanisation in the far north-west of the Roman Empire - at the Fortress of Legio II Adivtrix and then Legio XX Valeria Victrix at Devra (Chester), and at the Fortress and subsequently the civil town of the Cornovii at Viroconium (Wroxeter). The sculpture from Letcetum (Wall, Staffs) is also considered. The works range in quality from highly accomplished and decorative altars and tombstones, to rather ham-fisted efforts which hint that it was not always possible to attract sculptors to these relatively remote places. Such factors are discussed in an extended introduction.

Author : Adam Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317633849
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Roman Britain written by Adam Rogers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the colonial history of the British Empire there are difficulties in reconstructing the lives of people that came from very different traditions of experience. The Archaeology of Roman Britain argues that a similar critical approach to the lives of people in Roman Britain needs to be developed, not only for the study of the local population but also those coming into Britain from elsewhere in the Empire who developed distinctive colonial lives. This critical, biographical approach can be extended and applied to places, structures, and things which developed in these provincial contexts as they were used and experienced over time. This book uniquely combines the study of all of these elements to access the character of Roman Britain and the lives, experiences, and identities of people living there through four centuries of occupation. Drawing on the concept of the biography and using it as an analytical tool, author Adam Rogers situates the archaeological material of Roman Britain within the within the political, geographical, and temporal context of the Roman Empire. This study will be of interest to scholars of Roman archaeology, as well as those working in biographical themes, issues of colonialism, identity, ancient history, and classics.

Author : Martin Henig
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803273011
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water in the Roman World written by Martin Henig and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a wide and expansive new treatment of the role water played in the lives of people across the Roman world, papers consider ports and their lighthouses; water engineering, whether for canals in the north-west provinces, or for the digging of wells for drinking water; baths for swimming; and spas.

Author : Eleri H. Cousins
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789259134
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dynamic Epigraphy written by Eleri H. Cousins and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, with origins in a panel at the 2018 Celtic Conference in Classics, presents creative new approaches to epigraphic material, in an attempt to 'shake up' how we deal with inscriptions. Broad themes include the embodied experience of epigraphy, the unique capacities of epigraphic language as a genre, the visuality of inscriptions and the interplay of inscriptions with literary texts. Although each chapter focuses on specific objects and epigraphic landscapes, ranging from Republican Rome to early modern Scotland, the emphasis here is on using these case studies not as an end in themselves, but as a means of exploring broader methodological and theoretical issues to do with how we use inscriptions as evidence, both for the Greco-Roman world and for other time periods. Drawing on conversations from fields such as archaeology and anthropology, philology, art history, linguistics and history, contributors also seek to push the boundaries of epigraphy as a discipline and to demonstrate the analytical fruits of interdisciplinary approaches to inscribed material. Methodologies such as phenomenology, translingualism, intertextuality and critical fabulation are deployed to offer new perspectives on the social functions of inscriptions as texts and objects and to open up new horizons for the use of inscriptions as evidence for past societies.

Author : Roger White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1785709259
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clash of Cultures? written by Roger White and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The general perception of the west midlands region in the Roman period is that it was a backwater compared to the militarized frontier zone of the north, or the south of Britain where Roman culture took root early – in cities like Colchester, London ,and St Albans – and lingered late at cities like Cirencester and Bath with their rich, late Roman villa culture. The west midlands region captures the transition between these two areas of the ‘military’ north and ‘civilized’ south. Where it differed, and why, are important questions in understanding the regional diversity of Roman Britain. They are addressed by this volume which details the archaeology of the Roman period for each of the modern counties of the region, written by local experts who are or have been responsible for the management and exploration of their respective counties. These are placed alongside more thematic takes on elements of Roman culture, including the Roman Army, pottery, coins and religion. Lastly, an overview is taken of the important transitional period of the fifth and sixth centuries. Each paper provides both a developed review of the existing state of knowledge and understanding of the key characteristics of the subject area and details a set of research objectives for the future, immediate and long-term, that will contribute to our evolving understanding of Roman Britain. This is the third volume in a series – The Making of the West Midlands – that explores the archaeology of the English west midlands region from the Lower Palaeolithic onwards.

Author : R. H. White
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784910740
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wroxeter, the Cornovii and the Urban Process. Volume 2: Characterizing the City. Final Report of the Wroxeter Hinterland Project, 1994-1997 written by R. H. White and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1990s, the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum at Wroxeter, Shropshire, was subjected to intensive geophysical survey. This volume reports on the archaeological interpretation of this work, marrying the geophysical data with a detailed analysis of the existing aerial photographic record created by Arnold Baker 1950s-1980s.

Author : Francis M. Morris
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803276819
Total Pages : 1402 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venta Belgarum: Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Winchester written by Francis M. Morris and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed study of the archaeology of Roman Winchester—Venta Belgarum, a major town in the south of the province of Britannia— and its development from the regional (civitas) capital of the Iron Age people, the Belgae, who inhabited much of what is now central and southern Hampshire.

Author : Eberhard W. Sauer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134416199
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeology and Ancient History written by Eberhard W. Sauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of pieces from an international range of contributors explores in detail the separation of the human past into history and archaeology.

Author : Dr Miles Russell
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752469290
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book UnRoman Britain written by Dr Miles Russell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Britain is usually thought of as a land full of togas, towns and baths with Britons happily going about their Roman lives under the benign gaze of Rome. This is, to a great extent, a myth that developed after Roman control of Britain came to an end, in particular when the British Empire was at its height in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In fact, Britain was one of the least enthusiastic elements of the Roman Empire. The northern part of Britain was never conquered at all despite repeated attempts. Some Britons adopted Roman ways in order to advance themselves and become part of the new order, of just because they liked the new range of products available. However, many failed to acknowledge the Roman lifestyle at all, while many others were only outwardly Romanised, clinging to their own identities under the occupation. Britain never fully embraced the Empire and was itself never fully accepted by the rest of the Roman world. Even the Roman army in Britain became chronically rebellious and a source of instability that ultimately affected the whole Empire. As Roman power weakened, the Britons abandoned both Rome and almost all Roman culture, and the island became a land of warring kingdoms, as it had been before.

Author : Antonio Corso
Publisher : L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
ISBN 13 : 9788882654375
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Praxiteles: The mature years written by Antonio Corso and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifth Chapter: Praxiteles at his Peak (around 364-360); 22. The Cnidian Aphrodite; 23. The Coan Aphrodite; 24. The statues of the Twelve Gods in the sanctuary of the Savior Artemis in Megara; 25. The Aphrodite who is about to wreath herself; 26. The statue of Chaerippe; Indexes.