Download or read book A Frontier Post in Roman Britain written by Robin Birley and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier written by Alan K. Bowman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fully revised, expanded and updated edition of the Vindolanda writing tablets, recently voted Britain's number one treasure, and what they tell us about life on the Roman frontier. Alan Bowman summarises new evidence, and the book also containsnew photographs.
Download or read book The Frontier People of Roman Britain written by Peter Salway and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1965 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Hadrian s Wall written by Robin Birley and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life and Letters from the Roman Frontier written by Alan K. Bowman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-01-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Over three hundred letters and documents have recently been discovered at the fort of Vindolanda, written on wooden tablets which have amazingly survived nearly 2000 years. Painstakingly deciphered by Alan Bowman and J. David Thomas, they have contributed a wealth of evidence for daily life in the Roman Empire. From the military documents we learn of the strength and activities of the units stationed at Vindolanda. The accounts testify to the lifestyle of officers and ordinary soldiers, with payments for pepper and oil, towels and tallow, boots and beer. Then there are snapshots of domestic life in letters between the officers' wives, including a birthday invitation (see front cover). Most fascinating of all is the evidence for a high level of literacy in the Roman army, where even someone of humble rank receives a letter from home promising him a parcel of socks. Alan Bowman's lively summary of this new evidence is followed by the texts of 38 key tablets, in Latin and in translation, including new tablets found in 1991-4, which bring the reader very close to the actual people who inhabited Vindolanda in 100 AD.
Download or read book A Roman Frontier Post and Its People written by Fraser Hunter and published by Nms. This book was released on 2012 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication in 1911 of James Curle's excavation of the Roman frontier fort of Newstead, ancient Trimontium, near Melrose in the Scottish Borders was a landmark in Roman frontier studies. This volume was conceived as a celebration of this landmark on its centenary, looking back to Curle and his work, and looking forward to how the picture is changing.
Download or read book Roman Frontiers in Britain written by David J. Breeze and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall defined the edge of the Roman Empire in Britain. Today, the spectacular remains of these great frontier works stand as mute testimony to one of the greatest empires the world has ever seen. This new accessible account, illustrated with 25 detailed photographs, maps and plans, describes the building of the walls, and reconstructs what life was like on the frontier. It places these frontiers into their context both in Britain and Europe, examining the development of frontier installations over four centuries. Designed for students and teachers of Ancient History or Classical Civilisation at school and in early university years, this series provides a valuable collection of guides to the history, art, literature, values and social institutions of the ancient world.
Download or read book A Roman Frontier Post and Its People written by Fraser Hunter and published by Nms. This book was released on 2012 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication in 1911 of James Curle's excavation of the Roman frontier fort of Newstead, ancient Trimontium, near Melrose in the Scottish Borders was a landmark in Roman frontier studies. This volume was conceived as a celebration of this landmark on its centenary, looking back to Curle and his work, and looking forward to how the picture is changing.
Download or read book Roman Imperial Frontier in the West written by Julie Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperial policy on the western frontier of the Roman Empire was the means by which the government controlled the frontier residents. This book takes a topical approach to this study of the frontier: subjects covered include the army, farming, commerce, manufacturing, religion and Romanization.
Download or read book Hadrian s Wall and the End of Empire written by Rob Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late Roman frontier in the English language to date, despite the political and economic significance of the frontiers in the late antique period. Examining Hadrian's Wall and the Roman frontier of northern England from the fourth century into the Early Medieval period, this book investigates a late frontier in transition from an imperial border zone to incorporation into Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, using both archaeological and documentary evidence. With an emphasis on the late Roman occupation and Roman military, it places the frontier in the broader imperial context. In contrast to other works, Hadrian's Wall and the End of Empire challenges existing ideas of decline, collapse, and transformation in the Roman period, as well as its impact on local frontier communities. Author Rob Collins analyzes in detail the limitanei, the frontier soldiers of the late empire essential for the successful maintenance of the frontiers, and the relationship between imperial authorities and local frontier dynamics. Finally, the impact of the end of the Roman period in Britain is assessed, as well as the influence that the frontier had on the development of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria.
Download or read book Roman Frontier Archaeology in Britain and Beyond written by Nick Hodgson and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by leading archaeologists and historians pay tribute to Paul Bidwell, admired for his ground-breaking work both in the south-west and the military north of Roman Britain. This collection will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in either the civil or military aspects of Roman Britain, or the frontiers of the Roman empire.
Download or read book Military and Civilian in Roman Britain written by T. F. C. Blagg and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1984 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of indigenous political and social structure was a key factor in Roman expansion. To facilitate conquest and incorpora-tion, existing political divisions and tendencies were exploited to the full. In the longer term, Rome usually adopted whatever it could intact, and adapted or altered only those features which ran counter to her interests.
Download or read book Protecting the Roman Empire written by Matthew Symonds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman army enjoys an enviable reputation as an instrument of waging war, but as the modern world reminds us, an enduring victory requires far more than simply winning battles. When it came to suppressing counterinsurgencies, or deterring the depredations of bandits, the army frequently deployed small groups of infantry and cavalry based in fortlets. This remarkable installation type has never previously been studied in detail, and shows a new side to the Roman army. Rather than displaying the aggressive uniformity for which the Roman military is famous, individual fortlets were usually bespoke installations tailored to local needs. Examining fortlet use in north-west Europe helps explain the differing designs of the Empire's most famous artificial frontier systems: Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall, and the Upper German and Raetian limites. The archaeological evidence is fully integrated with documentary sources, which disclose the gritty reality of life in a Roman fortlet.
Download or read book Roman Frontier Studies 1989 written by Valerie A. Maxfield and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Frontier Studies presents one hundred of the papers given at the Fifteenth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies. First published in 1991, it has been out of print since 1995. This new edition is published to satisfy continuing demand for the volume. Geographically the material ranges throughout the frontier regions of the Roman Empire from Britain to the Caucasus, the Low Countries to Upper Egypt, Spain to Jordan. The first section deals with individual frontier regions, fort and fortress sites, army units and related military matters and includes overall surveys of significant work carried out in Britain and Germany in the 1980s. The second section explores three more general themes: the relations between "Romans" and "natives" on the peripheral areas of the Empire, the realities of life in a frontier region, and the problems peculiar to desert frontiers.
Download or read book The Impact of the Frontier Zone in Roman Britain written by James Holderness and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the economic position of the frontier zone in Roman Britain. This zone, the militarised area around Hadrian's Wall (and, separately, the Antonine Wall), not only consisted of soldiers, but also of their families, craftsmen, traders, natives and so on. The principal economic actors here were the soldiers, who both developed their own economic communities, supplying goods for themselves, and also provided the spending money to develop other economic communities, the military vici. The vicani supplemented the soldiers' consumption, supplying some useful goods and services. Compared with that symbiotic relationship, the natives Britons here were economically peripheral, although various exactions were still made against them. Aside from the economic activity within the frontier zone, those within it interacted with the Caledonians beyond the frontier and they also interacted with the rest of the Empire further south. Among interactions with the Caledonians, trade, strictly construed, was limited, while predation, including taxation, tribute, conscription and raiding, was more significant. England, that area south of the frontier zone, enjoyed a certain peace away from the militarised frontier and served both to supply goods produced locally to the frontier and also to tranship goods to the frontier, having arrived from the Continent. From the rest of the Empire, in addition to goods, also came immigrant populations, including some enterprising traders. This thesis focusses on these three areas of economic interactions: those within the frontier zone itself; those between the zone and beyond it; and those between the zone and the rest of the Empire. Furthermore, this thesis, a case study of Roman Britain's frontier is situated within the other frontier zones of the Empire, including with a comparison to the German frontier zone, as well as within an economic model for the Roman Empire.
Download or read book The Romanization of Roman Britain written by Francis Haverfield and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1923 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking Colonialism written by Craig N. Cipolla and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical archaeology studies once relied upon a binary view of colonialism: colonizers and colonized, the colonial period and the postcolonial period. The contributors to this volume scrutinize imperialism and expansionism through an alternative lens that rejects simple dualities and explores the variously gendered, racialized, and occupied peoples of a multitude of faiths, desires, associations, and constraints. Colonialism is not a phase in the chronology of a people but a continuous phenomenon that spans the Old and New Worlds. Most important, the contributors argue that its impacts—and, in some instances, even the same processes set in place by the likes of Columbus—are ongoing. Inciting a critical examination of the lasting consequences of ancient and modern colonialism on descendant communities, this wide-ranging volume includes essays on Roman Britain, slavery in Brazil, and contemporary Native Americans. In its efforts to define the scope of colonialism and the comparability of its features, this collection challenges the field to go beyond familiar geographical and historical boundaries and draws attention to unfolding colonial futures.
