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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Innovative vaulting in the architecture of the Roman Empire
    sub title: 1st to 4th centuries CE
  name:
    name part: Lancaster, Lynne C.
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
  abstract: This book studies six vaulting techniques employed in architecture outside of Rome and asks why they were invented where they were and how they were disseminated. Most of the techniques involve terracotta elements in various forms, such as regular flat bricks, hollow voussoirs, vaulting tubes and armchair voussoirs. Each one is traced geographically via GIS mapping, the results of which are analyzed in relation to chronology, geography and historical context. The most common building type in which the techniques appear is the bath, demonstrating its importance as a catalyst for technological innovation. This book also explores trade networks, the pottery industry and military movements in relation to building construction, revealing how architectural innovation was influenced by wide ranging cultural factors, many of which stemmed from local influences rather than imperial intervention.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Opus Caementicium -- 3. Barrel vaults of brick -- 4. Complex vault forms of brick -- 5. Vaulting tubes -- 6. Hollow voussoirs -- 7. Vaulting ribs of armchair voussoirs -- 8. Vault behavior and structural form -- 9. Vaulting techniques in context.
  note: Lynne C. Lancaster, Ohio University.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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  subject:
    topic: Vaults (Architecture)
    geographic: Rome
  subject:
    topic: Building, Terra-cotta
    geographic: Rome
  subject:
    topic: Architecture, Roman
  subject:
    topic: Architecture and society
    geographic: Rome
  subject:
    topic: ART
    topic: History
    topic: Ancient & Classical
  classification: TH2160 .L36 2015
  classification: 721/.430937
  identifier: 9781107059351
  identifier: 1107059356
  identifier: 9781107691353
  identifier: 1107691354
  identifier: 2015021258
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150602
    record change date: 20160427153402.0
    record identifier: in00003773977