The Roman Remains of Brittany, Normandy and the Loire Valley

The Roman Remains of Brittany, Normandy and the Loire Valley

Author: James Bromwich

Publisher: Fast-Print Publishing

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1780356625

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The Roman Remains of Brittany, Normandy and the Loire Valley is the third in a series of companion guides. The only specialist guidebook to the region, it provides context to many sites that deserve to be better known, some only recently conserved for the


Caesar's Footprints

Caesar's Footprints

Author: Bijan Omrani

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-12-05

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 168177612X

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An intellectual adventure through ancient France revealing how Caesar’s conquest of Gaul changed the course of French culture, forever transforming modern Europe. Julius Caesar’s conquests in Gaul in the 50s b.c. were bloody, but the cultural revolution they brought in their wake forever transformed the ancient Celtic culture of that country. After Caesar, the Gauls exchanged their tribal quarrels for Roman values and acquired the paraphernalia of civilized urban life. The Romans also left behind a legacy of language, literature, law, government, religion, architecture, and industry. Each chapter of Caesar’s Footprints is dedicated to a specific journey of exploration through Roman Gaul. From the amphitheatres of Arles and Nîmes to the battlefield of Châlons (where Flavius Aetius defeated Attila the Hun), Bijan Omrani—an exciting and authoritative new voice in Roman history—explores archaeological sites, artifacts, and landscapes to reveal how the imprint of Roman culture shaped Celtic France, and thereby helped to create modern Europe.


Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside

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

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This 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.


Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity

Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-11-20

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 900468798X

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Burial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology, A.D. 284–650, across the late antique world. This first volume includes an overview of research, and papers exploring bioarchaeology, mortuary rituals, mausolea, and funerary landscapes. It considers the sacralisation of tombs, the movements of relics, and the political significance of cemeteries. The nature and fate of statue monuments is explored, as memorials to individuals. Authors also compare the destruction or preservation of tombs in relation to other buildings. Finally, the city itself is considered as a place of collective memory, where meanings were long maintained, via a study of spoliation.


Breakthrough French

Breakthrough French

Author: Stephanie Rybak

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1993-06-18

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1349130699

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A complete self-study course developed for beginners looking for a practical language course to cover the needs of today's traveller. This new edition includes update background information and new design features. The book is ideal for home study or class-based courses.


The Cambridge Ancient History

The Cambridge Ancient History

Author: Alan K. Bowman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-02-08

Total Pages: 1228

ISBN-13: 9780521264303

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The period described in Volume X of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins in the year after the death of Julius Caesar and ends in the year after the fall of Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors. Its main theme is the transformation of the political configuration of the state and the establishment of the Roman Empire. Chapters 16 supply a political narrative history of the period. In chapters 7-12 the institutions of government are described and analysed. Chapters 13-14 offer a survey of the Roman world in this period region by region, and chapters 15-21 deal with the most important social and cultural developments of the era (the city of Rome; the structure of society; art, literature and law). Central to the period is the achievement of the first emperor, Augustus.


France

France

Author: Rosemary Bailey

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1426208227

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Presents a comprehensive travel guide to France; and contains full-color photographs, detailed maps, and information on hotels and restaurants, tourist sites, castles and cathedrals, museums, and World War II battlefields.