Villa landscapes in the Roman north : economy, culture and lifestyles /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Roymans, Nico, Derks, Ton
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
Series:Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 17.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Villa Landscapes in the Roman North; contents; preface; Studying Roman villa landscapes in the 21st century. A multi-dimensional approach; Reflections on the Iron Age background to the emergence of villa landscapes in northern France; Exploring villa development in the northern provinces of the Roman empire; On the origin and development of axial villas with double courtyards in the Latin West; Town-country dynamics in Roman Gaul. The epigraphy of the rulingelite; Ethnic recruitment, returning veterans and the diffusion of Roman culture among rural populations in the Rhineland frontier zone.
  • Indications for rural slavery in the northern provincesThe idea of the villa. Reassessing villa development in south-east Britain; The role of mortuary ritual in the construction of social boundaries by privileged social groups within villa landscapes; Monumental funerary structures of the 1st to the 3rd centuries associated with Roman villas in the area of the Treveri; Roman rural settlements in Flanders. Perspectives on a 'non-villa'landscape in extrema Galliarum; Evaluating settlement patterns and settlement densities in the villa landscapes between Tongres and Cologne.
  • The villa landscape of the Middle Aare valley and its spatial and chronological developmentRoman villa landscapes of the lignite mining areas in the hinterland of Cologne; The Roman villa complex of Reinheim, Germany; The Roman villa at Borg. Excavation and reconstruction; List of contributors.