Italy
Italy

Author: Karl Baedeker (Firm)

Publisher:

Published: 1893

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13:

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Roman Villas in Central Italy
Roman Villas in Central Italy

Author: Annalisa Marzano

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007-08-31

Total Pages: 842

ISBN-13: 9047421221

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This volume, which was awarded Honorable Mention and a Silver Medal from the Premio Romanistico Internationazionale Gérard Boulvert, investigates the socio-economic role of elite villas in Roman Central Italy drawing on both documentary sources and material evidence. Through the composite picture emerging from the juxtaposition of literary texts and archaeological evidence, the book traces elite ideological attitudes and economic behavior, caught between what was morally acceptable and the desire to invest capital intelligently. The analysis of the biases affecting the application of modern historiographical models to the interpretation of the archaeology frames the discussion on the identification of slave quarters in villas and the putative second century crisis of the Italian economy. The book brings an innovative perspective to the debate on the villa-system and the decline of villas in the imperial period.

Architecture in Ancient Central Italy
Architecture in Ancient Central Italy

Author: Charlotte R. Potts

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1108845282

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Reconnects ancient buildings with the people who made them, with their surroundings, and with practices in other times and cultures.

Italy, Handbook for Travellers, Vol. 2
Italy, Handbook for Travellers, Vol. 2

Author: K. Baedeker

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-06-24

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 9781332760350

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Excerpt from Italy, Handbook for Travellers, Vol. 2: Central Italy and Rome Eng]. Mile. Eng]. Foot. Kilometre. Kilogramme. Hour. Minute. Albergo (hotel). Trattoria (restaurant). Omnibus. Carriage. North, northern. South, etc. Also, supper. East, etc. West, etc. The letter 6 with a. Date, after the name of a person, indicates the year of his death. The number of feet given after the name of a place shows its height above the sea-level. The number of miles before the principal places on railway-routes and highroads indicates their distance rom the starting-point of the route. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage
The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage

Author: Astrid Van Oyen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-05-14

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1108851452

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In a pre-industrial world, storage could make or break farmers and empires alike. How did it shape the Roman empire? The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage cuts across the scales of farmer and state to trace the practical and moral reverberations of storage from villas in Italy to silos in Gaul, and from houses in Pompeii to warehouses in Ostia. Following on from the material turn, an abstract notion of 'surplus' makes way for an emphasis on storage's material transformations (e.g. wine fermenting; grain degrading; assemblages forming), which actively shuffle social relations and economic possibilities, and are a sensitive indicator of changing mentalities. This archaeological study tackles key topics, including the moral resonance of agricultural storage; storage as both a shared and a contested concern during and after conquest; the geography of knowledge in domestic settings; the supply of the metropolis of Rome; and the question of how empires scale up. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Roman archaeology and history, as well as anthropologists who study the links between the scales of farmer and state.