Late Roman Towns in Britain - Rethinking Change and Decline

Informationen zum Autor Adam Rogers is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester. He has published articles on the archaeology of the Roman and Late Iron Age periods, especially in the areas of settlement and landscape studies, religion and ritual, and historiography. Klappentext In this book! Adam Rogers examines the late Roman phases of towns in Britain. Zusammenfassung Adam Rogers examines the late Roman phases of towns in Britain. Arguing against the interpretation that many of the monumental civic buildings were in decline or abandoned in the later Roman period! he demonstrates that they remained purposeful spaces and important centres of urban life. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Edward Gibbon - growth, the Golden Age and decline and fall; 3. Approaches to Roman urbanism and studying the late Roman town; 4. Establishing the urban context: pre-Roman place and Roman urbanism; 5. The structures of the public buildings in the later Roman period: framing place and space; 6. New public structures within towns in the later Roman period; 7. Industrial activity within public buildings; 8. Timber buildings and 'squatter occupation' within public buildings; 9. Conclusions - senses of place: rethinking urbanism in Roman Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Rogers, Adam (University of Leicester) Rogers, Rogers Adam
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.03.2011
• EAN: 9781107008441
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00844-1
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology