Villa Landscapes in the Roman North : : Economy, Culture and Lifestyles /

Villa Landscapes in the Roman North : : Economy, Culture and Lifestyles / / Ton Derks, Nico Roymans.

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This anthology presents a synthesis of recent research on villas and villa landscapes in the northern provinces of the Roman world. It offers an original, multidimensional perspective on the social, economic, and cultural functioning of the Roman villa, locating it as the dual core of a rural estate...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Derks, Ton,
Roymans, Nico,
MitwirkendeR:
Birkenhagen, Bettina,
Crowley, Laura,
De Clercq, Wim,
Derks, Ton,
Gaitzsch, Wolfgang,
Habermehl, Diederick,
Haselgrove, Colin,
Henrich, Peter,
Jeneson, Karen,
Krier, Jean,
Roymans, Nico,
Schucany, Caty,
Sărăţeanu-Müller, Florian,
Taylor, Jeremy,
Zandstra, Marenne,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Amsterdam Archaeological Studies ; 17
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 100 color plates
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introductory essay. Studying Roman villa landscapes in the 21st century. A multi-dimensional approach
  • Studies of late iron age/ roman transition
  • Reflections on the Iron Age background to the emergence of villa landscapes in northern France
  • Exploring villa development in the northern provinces of the Roman empire
  • On the origin and development of axial villas with double courtyards in the Latin West
  • Essays on the social reconstructions
  • Town-country dynamics in Roman Gaul. The epigraphy of the ruling elite
  • Ethnic recruitment, returning veterans and the diffusion of Roman culture among rural populations in the Rhineland frontier zone
  • Indications for rural slavery in the northern provinces
  • The idea of the villa. Reassessing villa development in south-east Britain
  • Interpretation of mortuary evidence
  • The role of mortuary ritual in the construction of social boundaries by privileged social groups within villa landscapes
  • Monumental funerary structures of the 1st to the 3rd centuries associated with Roman villas in the area of the Treveri
  • Regional studies
  • Roman rural settlements in Flanders. Perspectives on a ‘non-villa’ landscape in extrema Galliarum
  • Evaluating settlement patterns and settlement densities in the villa landscapes between Tongres and Cologne
  • The villa landscape of the Middle Aare valley and its spatial and chronological development
  • Roman villa landscapes of the lignite mining areas in the hinterland of Cologne
  • Studies of individual sites
  • The Roman villa complex of Reinheim, Germany
  • The Roman villa at Borg. Excavation and reconstruction
  • List of contributors

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