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Book Roman and Native in the Low Countries

Download or read book Roman and Native in the Low Countries written by Roel Brandt and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roman and Native in the Low Countries

Download or read book Roman and Native in the Low Countries written by Roel Brandt and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1983 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from a symposium held Dec. 17-18, 1980, at the Archaeological Institute, Free University of Amsterdam.

Book Roman and Native in the Low Countries

Download or read book Roman and Native in the Low Countries written by Willem Albertus Es and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roman Imperial Frontier in the West

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 284 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.

Book Frontiers of the Roman Empire

Download or read book Frontiers of the Roman Empire written by Hugh Elton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its succinct analysis of the overriding issues and detailed case-studies based on the latest archaeological research, this social and economic study of Roman Imperial frontiers is essential reading. Too often the frontier has been represented as a simple linear boundary. The reality, argues Dr Elton, was rather a fuzzy set of interlocking zones - political, military, judicial and financial. After discussion of frontier theory and types of frontier, the author analyses the acquisition of an empire and the ways in which it was ruled. He addresses the vexed question of how to define the edges of provinces, and covers the relationship with allied kingdoms. Regional variation and different rates of change are seen as significant - as is illustrated by Civilis' revolt on the Rhine in AD 69. He uses another case-study - Dura-Europos - to exemplify the role of the army on the frontier, especially its relations with the population on both sides of the border. The central importance of trade is highlighted by special consideration of Palmyra.

Book Frontier and Society in Roman North Africa

Download or read book Frontier and Society in Roman North Africa written by Dr. David Cherry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysing the cultural, social, and economic consequences of the Roman occupation of North Africa (c.50 BC-AD 250), this book offers a fresh look at the development and purpose of the north African frontier-system.

Book From Safin to Roman  Cultural Change and Hybridization in Central Adriatic Italy

Download or read book From Safin to Roman Cultural Change and Hybridization in Central Adriatic Italy written by Oliva Menozzi and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Central Adriatic Apennines (roughly modern Abruzzo) was occupied in antiquity by Italic populations variously termed ‘Sabelli’, ‘Sabellics’ or ‘Sabellians’. The region in general has received little scholarly attention internationally compared with Tyrrhenian Italy, although the last three decades have been very rich in excavations and finds.

Book The Western Frontiers of Imperial Rome

Download or read book The Western Frontiers of Imperial Rome written by and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Rome's challenges in governing over different cultures, organizing an army made of non-Romans, inculcating Roman values and religion, feeding the army, trading, urbanizing, and industrializing. To make this work accessible to readers who lack an extensive background in Roman history, all Latin expressions are defined in the course of the discussion, a glossary is included, and modern as well as contemporary Latin names of places are used. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome

Download or read book Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome written by J. B. Campbell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figuring in myth, religion, law, the military, commerce, and transportation, rivers were at the heart of Rome's increasing exploitation of the environment of the Mediterranean world. In Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome, Brian Campbell explores

Book Becoming Roman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Greg Woolf
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2000-07-27
  • ISBN : 9780521789820
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Becoming Roman written by Greg Woolf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the 'Romanization' of Rome's Gallic provinces in the late Republic and early empire.

Book The Early Roman Empire in the West

Download or read book The Early Roman Empire in the West written by T. F. C. Blagg and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital reprint of this important collection of papers which form the companion to ' Early Roman Empire in the East' (Oxbow 1997) . Fourteen contributions examine the interaction of Roman and native peoples in the formative years of the Roman provinces in Italy, Gaul, Spain and Portugal, Germany and Britain. Contents: Introduction ( Thomas Blagg and Martin Millett ); The creation of provincial landscape: the Roman impact on Cisalpine Gaul ( Nicholas Purcell ); Romanization: a point of view ( Richard Reece ); Romanization: historical issues and archaeological interpretation ( Martin Millett ); The romanization of Belgic Gaul ( Colin Haselgrove ); Lower Germany: proto-urban settlement developments and the integration of native society ( J. H. F. Bloemers ); Relations between Roman occupation and the Limesvorland in the province of Germania Inferior ( Jurgen Kunow ); Early Roman military installations and Ubian settlements in the Lower Rhine ( Michael Gechter ); Some observations on acculturation process at the edge of the Roman world ( S. D. Trow ); Processes in the development of the coastal communities of Hispania Citerior in the Republican period ( Simon Keay ); Romanization and urban development in Lusitania ( Jonathan Edmondson ); Urban munificence and the growth of urban consciousness in Roman Spain ( Nicola Mackie ); First-century Roman houses in Gaul and Britain ( T. F. C. Blagg ); Towards an assessment of the economic and social consequences of the Roman conquest of Gaul ( J. F. Drinkwater ); The emergence of Romano-Celtic religion ( Anthony King ).

Book Ancient Greece and Rome

Download or read book Ancient Greece and Rome written by Keith Hopwood and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Thomas Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, was creator and commander of Parliament's New Model Army from 1645 to1650. Although Fairfax emerged as England's most successful commander of the 1640s, this book challenges the orthodoxy that he was purely a military figure, showing how he was not apolitical or disinterested in politics. The book combines narrative and thematic approaches to explore the wider issues of popular allegiance, puritan religion, concepts of honour, image, reputation, memory, gender, literature, and Fairfax's relationship with Cromwell. 'Black Tom' delivers a groundbreaking examination of the transformative experience of the English revolution from the viewpoint of one of its leading, yet most neglected, participants. It is the first modern academic study of Fairfax, making it essential reading for university students as well as historians of the seventeenth century. Its accessible style will appeal to a wider audience of those interested in the civil wars and interregnum more generally.

Book From the Sword to the Plough

Download or read book From the Sword to the Plough written by Nico Roymans and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siedlung - Landwirtschaft - Archäobotanik - Romanisierung - Siedlungsgeschichte.

Book Greco Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus

Download or read book Greco Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus written by Mark A. Chancey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greco-Roman Culture and the Galilee of Jesus, a book-length investigation of this topic, challenges the conventional scholarly view that first-century Galilee was thoroughly Hellenised. Examining architecture, inscriptions, coins and art from Alexander the Great's conquest until the early fourth century CE, Chancey argues that the extent of Greco-Roman culture in the time of Jesus has often been greatly exaggerated. Antipas's reign in the early first century was indeed a time of transition, but the more dramatic shifts in Galilee's cultural climate happened in the second century, after the arrival of a large Roman garrison. Much of Galilee's Hellenisation should thus be understood within the context of its Romanisation. Any attempt to understand the Galilean setting of Jesus must recognise the significance of the region's historical development as well as how Galilee fits into the larger context of the Roman East.

Book Blood of the Provinces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Haynes
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2013-10-03
  • ISBN : 0199655340
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Blood of the Provinces written by Ian Haynes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first fully comprehensive study of the auxilia, a non-citizen force which constituted more than half of Rome's celebrated armies. Diverse in origins, character, and culture, they played an essential role in building the empire, sustaining the unequal peace celebrated as the pax Romana, and enacting the emperor's writ.

Book Are We Rome

Download or read book Are We Rome written by Cullen Murphy and published by HMH. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action—or a dire warning of imminent collapse. In this “provocative and lively” book, Cullen Murphy points out that today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place, and reveals a wide array of similarities between the two societies (The New York Times). Looking at the blinkered, insular culture of our capitals; the debilitating effect of bribery in public life; the paradoxical issue of borders; and the weakening of the body politic through various forms of privatization, Murphy persuasively argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeoning corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of the world outside—two things that must be changed if we are to avoid Rome’s fate. “Are We Rome? is just about a perfect book. . . . I wish every politician would spend an evening with this book.” —James Fallows

Book The Barbarians Speak

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter S. Wells
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-06-08
  • ISBN : 1400843464
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book The Barbarians Speak written by Peter S. Wells and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture. The Celts and Germans inhabiting temperate Europe before the arrival of the Romans left no written record of their lives and were often dismissed as "barbarians" by the Romans who conquered them. Accounts by Julius Caesar and a handful of other Roman and Greek writers would lead us to think that prior to contact with the Romans, European natives had much simpler political systems, smaller settlements, no evolving social identities, and that they practiced human sacrifice. A more accurate, sophisticated picture of the indigenous people emerges, however, from the archaeological remains of the Iron Age. Here Peter Wells brings together information that has belonged to the realm of specialists and enables the general reader to share in the excitement of rediscovering a "lost people." In so doing, he is the first to marshal material evidence in a broad-scale examination of the response by the Celts and Germans to the Roman presence in their lands. The recent discovery of large pre-Roman settlements throughout central and western Europe has only begun to show just how complex native European societies were before the conquest. Remnants of walls, bone fragments, pottery, jewelry, and coins tell much about such activities as farming, trade, and religious ritual in their communities; objects found at gravesites shed light on the richly varied lives of individuals. Wells explains that the presence--or absence--of Roman influence among these artifacts reveals a range of attitudes toward Rome at particular times, from enthusiastic acceptance among urban elites to creative resistance among rural inhabitants. In fascinating detail, Wells shows that these societies did grow more cosmopolitan under Roman occupation, but that the people were much more than passive beneficiaries; in many cases they helped determine the outcomes of Roman military and political initiatives. This book is at once a provocative, alternative reading of Roman history and a catalyst for overturning long-standing assumptions about nonliterate and indigenous societies.