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Dependency and Social Inequality in Pre-Roman Italy
In the past, most studies on Pre-Roman societies in Italy (1st millennium BCE) focused on the elites, their representation and cultural contacts. The aim of this volume is to look at dependent and marginalized social groups, which are less visible and often even difficult to define (slaves, servants, freedmen, captives, ‚foreigners‘, athletes, women, children etc.). The methodological challenges connected to the study of such heterogeneous and scattered sources are addressed. Is the evidence representative enough for defining different forms of dependencies? Can we rely on written and pictorial sources or do they only reflect Greek and Roman views and iconographic conventions? Which social groups can’t be traced in the literary and archaeological record? For the investigation of this topic, we combined historical and epigraphical studies (Greek and Roman literary sources, Etruscan inscriptions) with material culture studies (images, sanctuaries, necropoleis) including anthropological and bioarchaeological methods. These new insights open a new chapter in the study of dependency and social inequality in the societies of Pre-Roman Italy.
The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014
This book presents the results of the first systematic archaeological study of Roman peasants. It examines the spaces, architecture, diet, agriculture, market interactions, and movement habitus of non-elite rural dwellers in a region of southern Tuscany, Italy, during the Roman period. Volume 1 presents the excavation data from eight non-elite rural sites including a farm, a peasant house, animal stall/work huts, a ceramics factory, field drains, and a site of uncertain function, here framed as individual chapters complete with finds analysis. Volume 2 examines this data synthetically in thematic chapters addressing land use, agriculture, diet, markets, and movement. The results suggest a di...
Ancient Rome and the Modern Italian State
Using Rome as a case study, this book examines how architecture and urbanism can be used to construct national identity.
Machiavelli's Children
Two late-developing nations, Japan and Italy, similarly obsessed with achieving modernity and with joining the ranks of the great powers, have traveled parallel courses with very different national identities. In this audacious book about leadership and historical choices, Richard J. Samuels emphasizes the role of human ingenuity in political change. He draws on interviews and archival research in a fascinating series of paired biographies of political and business leaders from Italy and Japan. Beginning with the founding of modern nation-states after the Meiji Restoration and the Risorgimento, Samuels traces the developmental dynamic in both countries through the failure of early liberalism...
Historical Archaeologies of Transhumance across Europe
Transhumance is a form of pastoralism that has been practised around the world since animals were first domesticated. Such seasonal movements have formed an important aspect of many European farming systems for several thousand years, although they have declined markedly since the nineteenth century. Ethnographers and geographers have long been involved in recording transhumant practices, and in the last two decades archaeologists have started to add a new material dimension to the subject. This volume brings together recent advances in the study of European transhumance during historical times, from Sweden to Spain, Romania to Ireland, and beyond that even Newfoundland. While the focus is o...
SOMA 2012
The Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Florence, Italy, 1-3 March 2012. [No other information found for this title].
Sacra Silva
Il bosco nella sua dimensione economica, sociale, giuridica, è stato già oggetto di studio di numerose pubblicazioni. Questo volume si concentra invece sulla sua valenza sacrale e religiosa nella lunga durata che va dalla tarda antichità al medioevo. Luogo di confine in cui gli uomini si perdono o si ritrovano, paesaggio affollato di creature spaventose, di eremiti e briganti, spazio in cui l’uomo convive con gli animali e con le piante, il bosco è anche momento di incontro tra uomo, naturale e sovrannaturale, ambiente in cui l’umano incontra il divino nelle sue più varie manifestazioni. Questo sistema di relazioni, già esistente nei boschi sacri dell’antichità, permane ancora per il periodo in esame? O, piuttosto, siamo in presenza di uno spazio desacralizzato in cui gli esseri che lo abitano vivono secondo le leggi della natura, sovvertite solo temporaneamente dall’irruzione del miracoloso? Il libro cerca di rispondere a queste e ad altre domande, interrogando le fonti storiche, la tradizione iconografica e archeologica, la fortuna letteraria e la dimensione filosofica attraverso concreti e verificabili casi di studio.
