Water and Roman Urbanism

Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-24787-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 355, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1280 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rogers, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Klassische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Five Urban Waterscapes
Chapter 3 Rivers, lakes and islands: towns, changing waterscapes and geography
Chapter 4 Waterfronts: the land/water interface and the construction of waterfront installations
Chapter 5 Wetlands: the materiality of land drainage and reclamation in towns
Chapter 6 Conclusions: towns, water and people

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.