Villa landscapes in the Roman north : economy, culture, and life-styles /

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This edited volume presents a synthesis of recent research on villas and villa landscapes in the northern provinces of the Roman world. It offers an original, multi-dimensional perspective on the social, economic and cultural functioning of villas within the context of the Roman empire. Themes discu...

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Other Authors: Roymans, Nico (Editor), Derks, Ton (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2011.
Series:Amsterdam archaeological studies ; 17.
Subjects:
Country homes > Europe, Northern > History.
Country homes > Gaul > History.
Iron age > Europe, Northern.
Architecture, Roman > Europe, Northern.
Architecture, Domestic > Europe, Northern.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Europe, Northern.
Gaul > History > 58 B.C.-511 A.D.
Gaul > Social life and customs.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Studying Roman villa landscapes in the 21st century. A multi-dimensional approach / Nico Roymans and Ton Derks
  • Reflections on the Iron Age background to the emergence of villa landscapes in northern France / Colin Haselgrove
  • Exploring villa development in the northern provinces of the Roman empire / Diederick Habermehl
  • On the origin and development of axial villas with double courtyards in the Latin West / Nico Roymans and Diederick Habermehl
  • Town-country dynamics in Roman Gaul. The epigraphy of the ruling elite / Ton Derks
  • Ethnic recruitment, returning veterans and the diffusion of Roman culture among rural populations in the Rhineland frontier zone / Nico Roymans
  • Indications for rural slavery in the northern provinces / Nico Roymans and Marenne Zandstra
  • The idea of the villa. Reassessing villa development in south-east Britain / Jeremy Taylor
  • The role of mortuary ritual in the construction of social boundaries by privileged social groups within villa landscapes / Laura Crowley
  • Monumental funerary structures of the 1st to 3rd centuries associated with Roman villas in the area of the Treveri / Jean Krier and Peter Henrich
  • Roman rural settlements in Flanders. Perspectives on a 'non-villa' landscape in extrema Galliarum / Wim De Clercq
  • Evaluating settlement patterns and settlement densities in the villa landscapes between Tongres and Cologne / Karen Jeneson
  • The villa landscape of the Middle Aare valley and its spatial and chronological development / Caty Schucany
  • Roman villa landscapes of the lignite mining areas in the hinterland of Cologne / Wolfgang Gaitzsch
  • The Roman villa complex of Reinheim, Germany / Florian Sărăţeanu-Müller
  • The Roman villa at Borg. Excavation and reconstruction / Bettina Birkenhagen.

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