Archaeology of Roman Britain - Biography and Identity

Within the colonial history of the British Empire there are difficulties in reconstructing the lives of people that came from very different traditions of experience. The Archaeology of Roman Britain argues that a similar critical approach to the lives of people in Roman Britain needs to be developed, not only for the study of the local population but also those coming into Britain from elsewhere in the Empire who developed distinctive colonial lives. This critical, biographical approach can be extended and applied to places, structures, and things which developed in these provincial contexts as they were used and experienced over time. This book uniquely combines the study of all of these elements to access the character of Roman Britain and the lives, experiences, and identities of people living there through four centuries of occupation.

List of contents

1. Roman Britain, Biographies and Identities 2. Biographies of Knowledge 3. People in Roman Britain 4. Buildings, Settlements, Landscapes and Critical Identities 5. The Lives of Objects and Materials 6. Conclusions – Critical Biographies and Roman Britain

About the author

Adam Rogers is a Research Associate in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester, UK. He is author of Late Roman Towns in Britain (2011) and Water and Roman Urbanism (2013)

Product details

• Authors: Adam Rogers, Rogers Adam
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2018
• EAN: 9781138383814
• ISBN: 978-1-138-38381-4
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Archaeology by period / region, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology