A Gazetteer of Roman Villas in Britain
Author: Eleanor Scott
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 228
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The Roman Villa in Britain
Author: A.L.F. Rivet
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-08-28
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1040036376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Roman Villa in Britain (1969) is a comprehensive examination of Roman villas in Romano-Britain in a series of essays by six specialists. H.C. Bowen, well-known for his work on early field systems, examines the evidence for the native Celtic agriculture which was practised in pre-Roman Britain and continued to form the basis of the country’s economy after the conquest. The ground plans of the villas, and their implications, are discussed by Sir Ian Richmond, while David Smith considers the mosaic pavements, both as implications of the wealth of their owners and as evidence for the existence of distinct local schools of mosaicists; Joan Liversidge deals with internal decoration and furnishing. A.L.F. Rivet reflects on the social and economic implications of the changing fortunes of the villas, and Graham Webster discusses the future of villa studies from the standpoint of the modern excavator.
Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside
Author: Martin Henig
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2023-03-02
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 180327381X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together a range of papers on buildings that have been categorised as ‘villas’, mainly in Roman Britain, from the Isle of Wight to Shropshire. It comprises the first such survey for almost half a century.
The Roman House in Britain
Author: Dominic Perring
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2002-06
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0203463854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecent studies have tended to seek explanations for the peculiarities of Romano-British architecture in local tradition, but this book shows how Britain embraced and elaborated Hellenistic ideas and spatial forms. Roman houses were built to sustain power, and Roman architecture gained currency in Britain because of its relevance to new political structures erected in the wake of conquest.
Roman Villas
Author: J.T. Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 1134705352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analysing the plans of buildings of all sizes from slightly Romanized farms to palaces. The ways in which the rooms are grouped together; how they intercommunicate; and the ways in which individual rooms and the house are approached, reveal various social patterns, which question traditional ideas about the Roman family and household. J. T. Smith argues that virtually all houses were occupied by groups of varying composition, challenging the received wisdom that they were single family houses whose size reflected only the owner's wealth and number of servants. Roman Villas provides a meticulously documented and scholarly examination of the relationship between the living quarters of the Roman and their social and economic development which introduces a new area in Roman studies and a corpus of material for further analysis. The inclusion of almost 500 ground plans, drawn to a uniform scale, allows the reader to compare the similarities and differences between house structure as well as effectively illustrating the arguments.
Villas, Farms and the Late Roman Rural Economy (third to Fifth Centuries AD)
Author: Tamara Lewit
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Limited
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781841716893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reprint with updated material of the authorÆs 1991 research into villas and farms and rural economy in the Late Roman era (Britain, Gaul, Italy, Spain and Gallia Belgica in the 3rd to 5th centuries AD).
A Companion to Roman Britain
Author: Malcolm Todd
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 0470998857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis major survey of the history and culture of Roman Britain spans the period from the first century BC to the fifth century AD. Major survey of the history and culture of Roman Britain Brings together specialists to provide an overview of recent debates about this period Exceptionally broad coverage, embracing political, economic, cultural and religious life Focuses on changes in Roman Britain from the first century BC to the fifth century AD Includes pioneering studies of the human population and animal resources of the island.
English Heritage Book of Roman Britain
Author: Martin Millett
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780713477931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the Roman system influenced the politics, art, religion, and general way of life of the native peoples of Britain after the Claudian invasion of AD 43. Despite the richness of archaeological, epigraphic and literary evidence, what actually occurred remains a subject of keen debate.
A Brief History of Roman Britain
Author: Joan P. Alcock
Publisher: Robinson
Published: 2011-05-26
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1849018138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn BC 55 Julius Caesar came, saw, conquered and then left. It was not until AD 43 that the Emperor Claudius crossed the channel and made Britain the western outpost of the Roman Empire that would span from the Scottish border to Persia. For the next 400 years the island would be transformed. Within that period would see the rise of Londinium, almost immediately burnt to the ground in 60 AD by Boudicca; Hadrian's Wall which was constructed in 112 AD to keep the northern tribes at bay as well as the birth of the Emperor Constantine in third century York. Interwoven with the historical narrative is a social history of the period showing how roman society grew in Britain.
The Ruin of Roman Britain
Author: James Gerrard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1107434858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did Roman Britain end? This new study draws on fresh archaeological discoveries to argue that the end of Roman Britain was not the product of either a violent cataclysm or an economic collapse. Instead, the structure of late antique society, based on the civilian ideology of paideia, was forced to change by the disappearance of the Roman state. By the fifth century elite power had shifted to the warband and the edges of their swords. In this book Dr Gerrard describes and explains that process of transformation and explores the role of the 'Anglo-Saxons' in this time of change. This profound ideological shift returned Britain to a series of 'small worlds', the existence of which had been hidden by the globalizing structures of Roman imperialism. Highly illustrated, the book includes two appendices, which detail Roman cemetery sites and weapon trauma, and pottery assemblages from the period.
