Recycling the Roman Villa - Material Salvage and the Medieval Circular Economy

By examining archaeological remains of Roman villas, this book explores how ancient craftspeople salvaged architecture to retain manufactured material value.

List of contents

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Valuable villa architecture; 3. Villa decline and material salvage; 4. Materials organization and stockpiling for recycling; 5. Material reprocessing at villas; 6. Economics of villa recycling; 7. Post-roman ownership and legacy of villas in the western provinces; 8. Conclusions; Bibliography.

About the author

Beth Munro is a Research Associate at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She has held a Rome Award at the British School at Rome, as well as Canada Research Chair Post-doctoral Fellowship in Roman archaeology at the University of Manitoba.

Summary

Beth Munro offers a retrospective study of the material value of and deconstruction processes at villas. She explores the technical properties of materials that were most frequently recycled, glass, metals, and limestone, the craftspeople who undertook this work, as well as the economic and culture drivers of recycling.

Product details

• Authors: Beth Munro, Beth (University of Toronto) Munro
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781009475587
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0947558-7
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Architecture, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, ART / History / Ancient & Classical, ARCHITECTURE / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE