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Burial, Society and Context in the Roman World

Author : John Pearce

Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited

Page : 304 pages

File Size : 25,98 MB

Release : 2000

Category : History

ISBN :

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Although a large number of cemeteries have been explored in Roman Britain they have never been seen as central to the study of the province. This collection of twenty-eight papers, from a symposium held at the University of Durham in 1997, explores different approaches to examine the contribution that cemeteries can make to our wider understanding of Roman society. The papers are grouped under five headings: The reconstruction of mortuary rituals; Burial and social status; The dead in the landscape; Burial and ethnicity and society; Religion and Burial in late Roman Britain and Italy.



Death and Burial in the Roman World

Author : J. M. C. Toynbee

Publisher : JHU Press

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 28,39 MB

Release : 1996-10-31

Category : History

ISBN : 9780801855078

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The most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices—now available in paperback Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem—Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide variety of perspectives. First, Toynbee examines Roman beliefs about death and the afterlife, revealing that few Romans believed in the Elysian Fields of poetic invention. She then describes the rituals associated with burial and mourning: commemorative meals at the gravesite were common, with some tombs having built-in kitchens and rooms where family could stay overnight. Toynbee also includes descriptions of the layout and finances of cemeteries, the tomb types of both the rich and poor, and the types of grave markers and monuments as well as tomb furnishings.



Crispina and Her Sisters

Author : Christine Schenk

Publisher : Fortress Press

Page : 479 pages

File Size : 39,90 MB

Release : 2017-12-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1506411894

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Cripina and Her Sisters explores visual imagery found on burial artifacts of prominent early Christian women. It carefully situates the tomb art within the cultural context of customary Roman commemorations of the dead and provides an in-depth review of women‘s history in the first four centuries of Christianity. From this, a fascinating picture emerges of women‘s authority in the early church--a picture either not readily available or recognized, or even sadly distorted in the written history.



The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain

Author : Martin Millett

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 945 pages

File Size : 50,98 MB

Release : 2016-08-04

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0191002526

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This book provides a twenty-first century perspective on Roman Britain, combining current approaches with the wealth of archaeological material from the province. This volume introduces the history of research into the province and the cultural changes at the beginning and end of the Roman period. The majority of the chapters are thematic, dealing with issues relating to the people of the province, their identities and ways of life. Further chapters consider the characteristics of the province they lived in, such as the economy, and settlement patterns. This Handbook reflects the new approaches being developed in Roman archaeology, and demonstrates why the study of Roman Britain has become one of the most dynamic areas of archaeology. The book will be useful for academics and students interested in Roman Britain.



The Archaeology of Death in Roman Syria

Author : Lidewijde de Jong

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 383 pages

File Size : 19,46 MB

Release : 2017-07-20

Category : History

ISBN : 1107131413

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This book sheds new light on funerary customs in Roman Syria, offering a novel way of understanding its provincial culture.



Death in Ancient Rome

Author : Valerie Hope

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 298 pages

File Size : 41,10 MB

Release : 2007-11-13

Category : History

ISBN : 1134323085

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Presenting a wide range of relevant, translated texts on death, burial and commemoration in the Roman world, this book is organized thematically and supported by discussion of recent scholarship. The breadth of material included ensures that this sourcebook will shed light on the way death was thought about and dealt with in Roman society.



Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity

Author : Ian Morris

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 33,53 MB

Release : 1992-10-22

Category : History

ISBN : 9780521376112

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In this innovative book Dr Morris seeks to show the many ways in which the excavated remains of burials can and should be a major source of evidence for social historians of the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Burials have a far wider geographical and social range than the surviving literary texts, which were mainly written for a small elite. They provide us with unique insights into how Greeks and Romans constituted and interpreted their own communities. In particular, burials enable the historian to study social change. Ian Morris illustrates the great potential of the material in these respects with examples drawn from societies as diverse in time, space and political context as archaic Rhodes, classical Athens, early imperial Rome and the last days of the western Roman empire.



Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture

Author : Rose MacLean

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 221 pages

File Size : 20,33 MB

Release : 2018-05-17

Category : History

ISBN : 1108621988

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During the transition from Republic to Empire, the Roman aristocracy adapted traditional values to accommodate the advent of monarchy. Freed Slaves and Roman Imperial Culture examines the ways in which members of the elite appropriated strategies from freed slaves to negotiate their relationship to the princeps and to redefine measures of individual progress. Primarily through the medium of inscribed burial monuments, Roman freedmen entered a broader conversation about power, honor, virtue, memory, and the nature of the human life course. Through this process, former slaves exerted a profound influence on the transformation of aristocratic values at a critical moment in Roman history.



Roman Finds

Author : Richard Hingley

Publisher : Oxbow Books

Page : 622 pages

File Size : 42,76 MB

Release : 2007-04-10

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1785705016

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Studies on finds in Roman Britain and the Western Provinces have come to greater prominence in the literature of recent years. The quality of such work has also improved, and is now theoretically informed, and based on rich data-sets. Work on finds over the last decade or two has changed our understanding of the Roman era in profound ways, and yet despite such encouraging advances and such clear worth, there has to date, been little in the way of a dedicated forum for the presentation and evaluation of current approaches to the study of material culture. The conference at which these papers were initially presented has gone some way to redressing this, and these papers bring the very latest studies on Roman finds to a wider audience. Twenty papers are here presented covering various themes.



Archaeologies of Remembrance

Author : Howard Williams

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 334 pages

File Size : 15,96 MB

Release : 2012-12-06

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1441992227

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How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and forgetting the past? This innovative new research work focuses upon identifying strategies of remembrance. Evidence can be found in a range of archaeological remains including the adornment and alteration of the body in life and death, the production, exchange, consumption and destruction of material culture, the construction, use and reuse of monuments, and the social ordering of architectural space and the landscape. This book shows how in the past, as today, shared memories are important and defining aspects of social and ritual traditions, and the practical actions of dealing with and disposing of the dead can form a central focus for the definition of social memory.