Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-40622-6 (ISBN)
This volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the cities of the Roman Mediterranean in the last centuries BCE and the fi rst centuries CE, integrating debates about Roman urban space with discourse on Roman urban history.
The contributions explore how these cities developed landscapes full of civic memory and ritual, saw commercial priorities transforming the urban environment, and began to expand signifi cantly beyond their wall circuits. These interrelated developments not only changed how cities looked and could be experienced, but they also affected the functioning of the urban community and together contributed to keeping increasingly complex urban communities socially cohesive. By focusing on the transformation of urban landscapes in the Late Republican and Imperial periods, the volume adds a new, explicitly historical angle to current debates about urban space in Roman studies. Confronting archaeological and historical approaches, the volume presents developments in Italy, Africa, Greece, and Asia Minor, thus significantly broadening the geographical scope of the discussion and offering novel theoretical perspectives alongside well- documented, thematic case studies.
Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World will be of interest to anyone working on Roman urbanism or Roman history in the Late Republic and early Empire.
Miko Flohr is Lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University. His research focuses on the archaeology of urban economies in Roman Italy. He published the monograph The World of the Fullo: Work, Economy and Society in Roman Italy (2013), and co-edited the volumes Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World (2016), and The Economy of Pompeii (2017). He is currently preparing a monograph on the architectural and economic history of the taberna and co-editing Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World.
From urban space to urban history – an introduction
Miko Flohr
PART I. EXPERIENCING THE CITY
Political space and the experience of citizenship in the city of Rome: architecture and interpellation
Amy Russell
Emotion and the city: the example of Pompeii
Annette Haug
Hilltops, heat, and precipitation: Roman urban life and the natural environment
Miko Flohr
PART II. COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, AND URBAN SPACE
Topographical permeability and the dynamics of public space in Roman Minturnae
Patric-Alexander Kreuz
Antique statuary and urban identity in Roman Greece
Christopher P. Dickenson
Women in the forum: the cases of Italy and Roman North Africa
Cristina Murer
Religion in the urban landscape: the special case of Rome
Marlis Arnhold
PART III. COMMERCE AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
Sacred transactions: religion and markets in Roman urbanism
Elizabeth Fentress
Fora and commerce in Roman Italy
Miko Flohr
The archaeology of urban workshops in the Roman Maghreb
Touatia Amraoui
The ports of Roman Lycia: urbanism, networks, and hierarchies
Candace M. Rice
PART IV. URBAN LIFE BEYOND THE CITY WALLS
Urban borderscapes in Roman Italy: arenas for social, political and cultural interaction
Saskia Stevens
The tabernae outside Porta Ercolano in Pompeii and their context
Sandra Zanella
Roman roads as an indicator of urban life: the Via Appia near Rome
Stephan T.A.M. Mols and Eric Moormann
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.06.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism |
| Zusatzinfo | 5 Tables, black and white; 126 Halftones, black and white; 126 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-40622-5 / 0367406225 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-40622-6 / 9780367406226 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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