Sanctuaries in Roman Dacia : materiality and religious experience /
This book is the first comprehensive work focusing on lived ancient religious communication in Roman Dacia. Testing for the first time the Lived Ancient Religion approach in terms of a peripheral province from the Danubian area, this work looks at the role of sacralized spaces, known commonly as san...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Text in English ; summary in Hungarian. |
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Oxford, UK :
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,
[2018]
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| Series: | Archaeopress Roman archaeology ;
49. |
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| Summary: | This book is the first comprehensive work focusing on lived ancient religious communication in Roman Dacia. Testing for the first time the Lived Ancient Religion approach in terms of a peripheral province from the Danubian area, this work looks at the role of sacralized spaces, known commonly as sanctuaries in the religious communication of the province. The author analyses the role of space sacralization, religious appropriation, embodiment and the social impact of religious communication in urban contexts (Apulum), military contexts (Porolissum and Mehadia) and numerous examples from rural (non-urban) environments (Ampelum, Germisara, Ad Mediam and many others). The book concentrates not only on the creation and maintenance of sacralized spaces in public and secondary locations, but also on their role at the microlevel of objects, semi-micro level of spaces (settlements) and the macrolevel of the province and the Danubian region as a whole. Innovatively as regards provincial archaeological research, this book emphasises the spatial aspects of lived ancient religion by analyzing for the first time the sanctuaries as spaces of religious communication in Dacia. The work also contains a significant chapter on the so-called small-group religions (the Bacchic, Mithraic and Dolichenian groups of the province), which are approached for the first time in detail. The study also gives the first comprehensive list of archaeologically-epigraphically attested, and presumed sacralised spaces within Dacia. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 241 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1789690811 9781789690811 |