Staying Roman : conquest and identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700 /
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"In 416, when preaching a sermon on the psalms in late Roman Carthage, Augustine was able to ask his audience, 'Who now knows which nations in the Roman empire were what, when all have become Romans, and all are called Romans?'1 Yet already by the time Augustine addressed his Carthaginian audience the continued unity of the Roman Mediterranean was being called into question. The defeat and death of the Roman emperor Valens at Adrianople in 378 had set the stage for a new phase of conflict between the empire and its non-Roman neighbours ; and over the course of the fifth century Roman power collapsed in the West, where it was succeeded by a number of sub-Roman kingdoms. Questions that had seemed trivial to Augustine were suddenly and painfully alive : what did it mean to be 'Roman' in the changed circumstances of the fifth and later centuries? And (from a twenty-first-century perspective) what became of the idea of Romanness in the West once Roman power collapsed?"--
"What did it mean to be Roman once the Roman Empire had collapsed in the West? Staying Roman examines Roman identities in the region of modern Tunisia and Algeria between the fifth-century Vandal conquest and the seventh-century Islamic invasions. Using historical, archaeological and epigraphic evidence, this study argues that the fracturing of the empire's political unity also led to a fracturing of Roman identity along political, cultural and religious lines, as individuals who continued to feel 'Roman' but who were no longer living under imperial rule sought to redefine what it was that connected them to their fellow Romans elsewhere. The resulting definitions of Romanness could overlap, but were not always mutually reinforcing. Significantly, in late antiquity Romanness had a practical value, and could be used in remarkably flexible ways to foster a sense of similarity or difference over space, time and ethnicity, in a wide variety of circumstances"--
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 2004, entitled: Staying Roman : Vandals, Moors, and Byzantines in late antique North Africa, 400-700. :
xviii, 438 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-419) and index. :
9780521196970
The Greeks and Romans in the Black Sea and the importance of the Pontic region for the Graeco-Roman world (7th century BC-5th century AD) : 20 years on (1997-2017) : proceedings of...
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This publication presents the Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities, dedicated to the 90th birthday of Prof. Sir John Boardman, President of the Congress since its inception.
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Conference proceedings.
Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (778 pages) : illustrations, maps :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789697599 (PDF ebook) :
Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement along the Empingham to Hannington pipeline in Northamptonshire and Rutland /
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This volume brings together reports on excavations by Northamtonshire Archaeology (now MOLA) in the south-east Midlands region. 19 sites were investigated, dating primarily to the Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784915353 (ebook) :
Aelia Capitolina - Jerusalem in the Roman period : in light of archaeological research /
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The book discusses the history and the archaeology of Jerusalem in the Roman period (70-400 CE) following a chronological order, from the establishment of the Tenth Roman Legion's camp on the ruins of Jerusalem in 70 CE, through the foundation of Aelia Capitolina by Hadrian, in around 130 CE, and the Christianization of the population and the cityscape in the fourth century. Cemeteries around the city, the rural hinterland, and the imperial roads that led to and from Aelia Capitolina are discussed as well. Due to the paucity of historical sources, the book is based on archaeological remains, suggesting a reconstruction of the city's development and a discussion of the population's identity.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004417076
Pre-Roman and Roman Winchester.
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Outside the north gate of Venta Belgarum, Roman Winchester, a great cemetary stretched for 500 yards along the road to Cirencester. Excavations at Lankhills from 1967 to 1972 uncovered 451 graves, many elaborately furnished, at the northern limits of this cemetery, and dating from the fourth century A.D. This book describes the excavations of these burials and analyses, in detail, both the graves and their contents. There are detailed studies and important re-assessments of many categories of object, but it is the information about late Roman burial, religion, and society which is of special interest.
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Previously issued in print: Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1979. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781803270098 (PDF ebook) :
Les cultes orientaux sur le territoire de la Mésie supérieure.
: Part of the author's thesis--Belgrad, 1964, presented under title: Les représentations figurées des divinités orientales sur le territoire de la Yougoslavie. : 1 online resource (105 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9789004296145 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.