Tanner, Jeremy and Gardner, Andrew (Eds).
(2024)
Materialising the Roman Empire.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Materialising the Roman Empire |
| ISBN: | 9781800083981 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800083981 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800083981 |
| Publisher version: | http://https/10.14324/111.9781800083981 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Tanner, J. and Gardner, A. (eds.) 2024. Materialising the Roman Empire. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800083981 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | archaeology, materiality, post-colonial, globalisation, ancient technologies, trade, slavery, craft production, frontiers, roads, writing, coinage, religion, ideology |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187940 |
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