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Author: Charles Edward Davis
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 42
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath" is an essay first printed in the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæological Society. Vol. VIII., part I. The essay described the history, purpose, build, and architecture of the Roman baths in Bath, founded by the Romans as a thermal spa in the 1st century B.C.
Author: Peter Davenport
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2021-07-16
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0750996439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor almost three hundred years, excavations have been carried out in Roman Bath. At first these were rare and sporadic and archaeological finds were made by chance. Even fewer were reported. But from the 1860s, deliberate investigations were made and increasingly professional methods employed. The Roman Baths were laid open to view, but little was published. From the 1950s, interest accelerated, professionals and amateurs collaborated, and there was never a decade in which some new discovery was not made. The first popular but authoritative presentation of this work was made in 1971 and updated several times. However, from the 1990s to the present there has been some sort of archaeological investigation almost every year. This has thrown much new and unexpected light on the town of Aquae Sulis and its citizens. In this book, Peter Davenport, having been involved in most of the archaeological work in Bath since 1980, attempts to tell the story of Roman Bath: the latest interim report on the 'Three Hundred Year Dig'.
Author: Patricia Southern
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2015-01-15
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1445615908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive history of Roman Bath
Author: Sadi Maréchal
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789004418721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the survival, transformation and eventual decline of Roman public baths and bathing habits in Italy, North Africa and Palestine during Late Antiquity.
Author: Barry W. Cunliffe
Publisher:
Published: 2000-11
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780752419282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe finding, in 1727, of the gilded bronze head of the Roman goddess Minerva during the construction of the famous Stall Street led to the discovery of the Roman temple and of the baths. Since then archaeologists have discovered more and more about the Roman city of Aquae Sulis. In this new edition of a work first published almost thirty years ago, Professor Cunliffe brings the story right up to date. He deals in detail with the temple and its precinct and with the 'curse tablets' which have been deciphered to reveal the thoughts of Roman visitors. He then explains just how the bathing establishment was organized and explores the relationship between the spa and the town. We learn what life was like for the local inhabitants as well as for the visitors. Finally, he charts the process of decline and decay during the 300 years after the Roman period.
Author: Eleri H. Cousins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-16
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 110849319X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing a broad array of archaeology, art, and text, this book revolutionizes our understanding of the Roman sanctuary at Bath.
Author: Wilhelmina F. Jashemski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-28
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 1108327036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Gardens of the Roman Empire, the pioneering archaeologist Wilhelmina F. Jashemski sets out to examine the role of ancient Roman gardens in daily life throughout the empire. This study, therefore, includes for the first time, archaeological, literary, and artistic evidence about ancient Roman gardens across the entire Roman Empire from Britain to Arabia. Through well-illustrated essays by leading scholars in the field, various types of gardens are examined, from how Romans actually created their gardens to the experience of gardens as revealed in literature and art. Demonstrating the central role and value of gardens in Roman civilization, Jashemski and a distinguished, international team of contributors have created a landmark reference work that will serve as the foundation for future scholarship on this topic. An accompanying digital catalogue will be made available at: www.gardensoftheromanempire.org.
Author: Douglas R. Underwood
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9004390537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn (Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood presents a new account of the use and reuse of Roman urban public monuments in a crucial period of transition, A.D. 300-600. Commonly seen as a period of uniform decline for public building, especially in the western half of the Mediterranean, (Re)using Ruins shows a vibrant, yet variable, history for these structures. Douglas Underwood establishes a broad catalogue of archaeological evidence (supplemented with epigraphic and literary testimony) for the construction, maintenance, abandonment and reuses of baths, aqueducts, theatres, amphitheatres and circuses in Italy, southern Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, demonstrating that the driving force behind the changes to public buildings was largely a combined shift in urban ideologies and euergetistic practices in Late Antique cities.
Author: Paulus Antonius Maria Beliën
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9789057993244
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Dit wetenschappelijke rapport is het resultaat van een grootschalig onderzoeksproject dat tussen 2016 en 2019 is uitgevoerd in het Thermenmuseum in Heerlen. Centraal stond het Romeinse publieke badhuis van Coriovallum - het hedendaagse Heerlen - en haar inbedding in de Romeinse stad. De resultaten van het onderzoek van meer dan 20 archeologische specialisten worden in deze bundel gepresenteerd. Het onderzoek heeft een schat aan nieuwe informatie opgeleverd, niet alleen wat betreft het badhuis en hoe dit functioneerde door de tijd heen, maar ook wat betreft Coriovallum als kleine provinciestad op een steenworp afstand van de limes in Germania Inferior. Duidelijk is geworden dat het publieke badhuis van Coriovallum bijna 400 jaar een centrale rol in de stad heeft gespeeld'.-- Uitgever Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed.
Author: Miranda Aldhouse-green
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2018-08-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 050025222X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA compelling new account of religion in Roman Britain, weaving together the latest archaeological research and a new analysis of ancient literature to illuminate parallels between past and present Two thousand years ago, the Romans sought to absorb into their empire what they regarded as a remote, almost mythical island on the very edge of the known world—Britain. The expeditions of Julius Caesar and the Claudian invasion of 43 CE, up to the traditional end of Roman Britain in the fifth century CE, brought fundamental and lasting changes to the island. Not least among these was a pantheon of new classical deities and religious systems, along with a clutch of exotic eastern cults, including Christianity. But what homegrown deities, cults, and cosmologies did the Romans encounter in Britain, and how did the British react to the changes? Under Roman rule, the old gods and their adherents were challenged, adopted, adapted, absorbed, and reconfigured. Miranda Aldhouse- Green balances literary, archaeological, and iconographic evidence (and scrutinizes the shortcomings of each) to illuminate the complexity of religion and belief in Roman Britain. She examines the two-way traffic of cultural exchange and the interplay between imported and indigenous factions to reveal how this period on the cusp between prehistory and history knew many of the same tensions, ideologies, and issues of identity still relevant today.
