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Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire
This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were constantly played upon in the processes of negotiation and (re)definition that made the empire into a superstructure whose coherence was embedded in its diversity.
Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers
Rome and the Worlds Beyond Its Frontiers examines interactions between those within and those beyond the boundaries of Rome, with an eye to the question of contested identities and identity formations.
Gerulata: The Lamps
What should a catalogue of archaeological material contain? This book is a comprehensive index of 210 lamps from the Roman fort of Gerulata (present-day Bratislava-Rusovce, Slovakia) and its adjoining civilian settlement. The lamps were excavated during the last 50 years from the houses, cemeteries, barracks and fortifications of this Roman outpost on the Limes Romanus and span almost three centuries from AD 80 to AD 350. For the first time, they are published in full and in color with detailed analysis of lamp types, workshop marks and discus scenes. Roman lamps were a distinctive form of interior lighting that burned liquid fuel seeped through a wick to create a controlled flame. Relief decorations have made them appealing objects of minor art in modern collections, but lamps were far more than that – with a distribution network spanning three continents, made by a multitude of producers and brands, with their religious imagery depicting forms of worship, and as symbols of study and learning, Roman lamps are an effective tool that can be used by the modern scholar to discover the ancient economy, culture, craft organization and Roman provincial life.
Living by the Coins
After a forty-year gap following the excavations of the 1950s (and even earlier), large archaeological campaigns have been carried out since the 1990s in a quarter (also known as "Spaziergarten", "insula VI"and "Open-Air Museum") of the former "civilian" Roman town of Carnuntum. These new excavations have produced a large quantity of coins. Some of these findings have been published in the monumental volume Numismata Carnuntina - FMRÖ III.2 together with the rest of the coins found at Carnuntum in older collections. The new excavations were carried out according to new methodologies, as nowadays it is a desideratum to create numismatic corpora that should gather as much information as possi...
Die römische Expansion
Wie wurde Rom zur Weltmacht? Welche Faktoren waren auf diesem Weg ausschlaggebend? Einblick in diese Fragen ermöglicht die vorliegende Publikation, die wirtschafts-, sozial- und militärhistorische Details zu einem Modell der römischen Expansion vereint. Obwohl der Fokus der Analyse chronologisch auf die augusteische Zeit und geographisch auf den Alpen-Donau-Adria-Raum ausgerichtet ist, liegt ihr ein generalistischer Ansatz zu Grunde. Methodisch spannt dieses Buch einen Bogen von klassischen Ansätzen der Geschichtswissenschaft bis hin zu Erkenntnissen aus dem Bereich der experimentellen Archäologie. Die Vielfalt der sich darin widerspiegelnden Eindrücke lässt eine vergangene Welt auferstehen.
Limes XIX
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Limes XVIII:
A conference held under the auspices of the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, The Council for British Research in the Levant and the Department of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool The much-anticipated, two-volume proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies held in Amman, Jordan (September 2000). The 100 papers published here represent approximately two-thirds of the presentations made at this important event. The 'limits' of the discussions encompass (Volume I) General Themes, The Eastern Frontier, Rome and Parthia, The Anatolian Provinces and the Black Sea Region, North Africa, The Germanies, Early Roman Germany, (Volume II) The Danubian and Balkan Provinces, Dacia, The Spains, Britain, The Roman Army, Roman Fortifications, Fleets and Frontiers, and Documents and Archives.
A Research Guide to the Ancient World
A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print and Electronic Sources is a partially annotated bibliography that covers the study of the ancient world, and closes the traditional subject gap between the humanities and the social sciences in this area of study. This book is the only bibliographic resource available for such holistic coverage.
The European Countryside during the Migration Period
Research on late antique and early medieval migrations has long acknowledged the importance of interdisciplinarity. The field is constantly nourished by new archaeological discoveries that allow for increasingly refined pictures of socio-economic development. Yet the perspectives adopted by historians and archaeologists are frequently different, and so are their conclusions. Diverging views exist in respect to varying geographical areas and scholarly traditions too. This volume brings together history and archaeology to address the impact of the inflow and outflow of migrations on the rural landscape, the creation of new settlement patterns, and the role of migrations and mobility in transforming society and economy. Such themes are often investigated under a regional or macro-regional viewpoint, resulting in too fragmented an understanding of a widespread phenomenon. Spanning Eastern and Western Europe, the book takes steps toward an integrated picture of territories normally investigated as separate entities, and critically establishes grounds for new comparisons and models on late antique and early medieval transformations.
Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces
The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where the dominant, pre-Roman cultures (Celtic, Illyrian, Hellenistic, Thracian) are interconnected within the new administrative, economic and cultural units of Roman cities, provinces and extra-provincial networks. This book presents the material evidence of Roman religion in the Danubian provinces through a new, paradigmatic methodology, focusing not only on the traditional urban and provincial units of the Roman Empire, but on a new space taxon...
