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The economic integration of Roman Italy : rural communities in a globalizing world /
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Over the past decades, archaeological field surveys and excavations have greatly enriched our knowledge of the Roman countryside Drawing on such new data, the volume The Economic Integration of Roman Italy , edited by Tymon de Haas and Gijs Tol, presents a series of papers that explore the changes Rome's territorial and economic expansion brought about in the countryside of the Italian peninsula. By drawing on a variety of source materials (e.g. pottery, settlement patterns, environmental data), they shed light on the complexity of rural settlement and economies on the local, regional and supra-regional scales. As such, the volume contributes to a re-assessment of Roman economic history in light of concepts such as globalisation, integration, economic performance and growth.
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1 online resource (513 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004345027 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Yearbook of the ILA Italian Branch /
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The Yearbook of the ILA Italian Branch aims to disseminate the work of the ILA Italian Branch and its associates, in particular the latter's contribution within ILA Committees and Study Groups, and to discuss topical issues in contemporary international law. To this end, the Yearbook features original, peer-reviewed contributions on a wide range of topics, reports on the work of ILA Committees and Study Groups, analyses of judicial and arbitral practice and book reviews.
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1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004727663
Il sito della Rocca di Oratino : dieci anni di ricerche : un'area funzionale all'aperto nell'età del Bronzo /
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This volume presents excavation results pertaining to the final stages of occupation (late Subappennine period) of the Bronze Age site of Orantino-La Rocca (Campobasso), located in the upper Biferno river valley. These layers are marked by the presence of a series of cooking slabs and hearths, dedicated to food preparation and consumption.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803272962 (PDF ebook) :
Bioarchaeology and dietary reconstruction across late antiquity and the Middle Ages in Tuscany, Central Italy /
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This title presents the results of the first multidisciplinary bioarchaeological analysis to reconstruct living conditions in Tuscany between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. This was done through the examination of stress markers, including adult stature, periosteal reaction, cranial porosities, and linear enamel hypoplasia, and through palaeodietary reconstruction in order to explore the effects of socio-cultural and environmental factors in a diachronic perspective. The shift from Classical to Medieval times has long left its mark on the European historical consciousness. Nevertheless, the impact of this transition on living conditions and dietary practices remains a subject of debate, with a prevailing perception of these 'Dark Ages' as an impoverished phase following the collapse of the Roman agrarian villa system, particularly in the Mediterranean area.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (xii, 192 pages). : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789698664 (PDF ebook) :
Dinamiche insediative nelle campagne dell'Italia tra Tarda Antichità e Alto Medioevo /
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A series of selected contributions about settlement patterns in the Italian countryside between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, providing a critical overview of the most recent research on the subject.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (ii, 180 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781784918248 (ebook) :
Tales of three worlds : archaeology and beyond : Asia, Italy, Africa : a tribute to Sandro Salvatori /
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Tales of Three Worlds collects, as a sign of gratitude and affection, a series of papers by many authors who, in different times, contexts and contingencies, had the luck to meet Sandro Salvatori, and share with him a path of knowledge and mutual personal acquaintance. The book is divided in three sections: his long years of work in Middle Asia, from the plains of Sistan to those of the Indus, the coasts of the Omani peninsula and southern Turkmenistan; Sandro's activities in Italy, as an officer of the Archaeological Superintendency (Ministry of Cultural Heritage) of his region; and the prehistory of north-eastern Africa, a context in which Sandro could work in full scientific and familiar ease, as he was prevented from doing in other situations.
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Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789694413 (ebook) :
Sulla, the elites and the empire : a study of Roman policies in Italy and the Greek east /
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This book is a study of Sulla's policies in Italy and in the Greek East. Its main aim is to show how Sulla revived Rome's alliances with the local elites at a critical moment for the survival of her Mediterranean hegemony. The discussion calls into play a wide range of political, economic and religious issues, and the argument is developed from three complementary standpoints: role of elites, administration, and ideology. Sulla, the Elites and the Empire deals with both the impact of a prominent individual and the impact of the Roman empire. It sets outs to offer a new understanding of Sulla and his age and, more generally, to contribute to the understanding of the late Roman Republic.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-281) and index. :
9789047423713 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Funerary archaeology and changing identities : community practices in Roman-period Sardinia /
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This work analyses in detail the funerary evidence from burial sites in southern and central Sardinia, proposing an alternative interpretation of the island and of other Roman Provinces in which local communities played an active and creative role in shaping back the Roman-world within the specific material and historical conditions they lived in.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (210 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
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9781789690019 (ebook) :
The plague cemetery of Alghero, Sardinia (1582-1583) : the bioarchaeological study /
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This study presents a bioarchaeological analysis of the individuals exhumed from the cemetery of Alghero (Sardinia), which is associated with the plague outbreak that ravaged the city in 1582-83. The results shed light on a population which lived during a period of plague, revealing lifestyles, activity patterns and illnesses.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803270777 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Santa Cristina in Caio : la lunga durata di un insediamento pubblico viario tra età romana e medioevo /
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This volume collects the results of the 2009-2015 excavation campaigns in Santa Cristina in Caio (Buonconvento, Siena) and contextualises the site in the wider phenomenon of mansiones, Roman secondary settlements, and their reuse between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803273495 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Suburbia and rural landscapes in medieval Sicily /
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This volume presents the results of the main ongoing archaeological and historical research focusing on medieval suburbia and rural sites in Sicily. It is divided into thematic areas: urbanscapes, suburbia, hinterlands; inland and mountainous landscapes; changes in rural settlement patterns; and defence and control of the territory.
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Also issued in print: 2023. :
1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803275468 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
The Protestant Peril"" : The Church and Italian Catholics on the issue of religious freedom, 1922-1955 /
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In Italy, anti-Protestantism became a relevant motif of reactionary polemics during the Risorgimento and the post-unification period in the 19th century. Attenuated around 1900, the anti-Protestant offensive resumed after the First World War. Between the early 1920s and the mid-1950s, the hostility of the Catholic Church towards the Protestant presence and mission in Italy became a significant social and political phenomenon. It succeeded in influencing the attitude of the Italian state and the legislation on religious freedom itself. Reconstructing Catholic anti-Protestantism, Paolo Zanini shows that the attitude towards Protestant denominations was one of the features of continuity between Fascism and the first decade of the post-war Republic.
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1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783657796830
Archeologia dell'architettura religiosa e forme di potere all'Isola d'Elba tra XI e XII secolo /
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This study is a historical archaeological analysis of a territorial area including the Island of Elba, Monte Pisano and the neighboring plain, using the methodology of 'light' archeology: stratigraphic reading of the elevations and reading of the historical landscape.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (xi, 123 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803271989 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Santuari e spazi confessionali nell'Italia tardoantica /
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The cult of relics led to the transformation of the Late Antique Italian landscape, and of suburban areas in particular. Analysing hypogeal and subdial contexts, this book outlines the evolution of loca sancta, in a process that led the venerated tombs to become first memoriae, then places of worship and finally articulated sanctuaries.
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Also issued in print: 2021. :
1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations (black and white) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789697551 (PDF ebook) :
Traffici commerciali e approdi portuali nella sardegna meridionale : analisi dei contenitori da trasporto e dei contesti subacquei (III-VII secolo) /
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A study of trade flows on the southern coast of Sardinia in Late Antiquity through underwater finds, amphorae analysis and hypothetical docking points. Recent underwater surveys have highlighted multiple examples of possible cargoes from wrecks, especially of heterogeneous types, as in Cagliari, Nora (Pula) and in the sea around Sulcis.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (x, 269 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803271194 (PDF ebook) : :
Open access.
Les Néandertaliens du talon : technologie lithique et mobilité au Paléolithique moyen dans le Salento (Pouilles, Italie méridionale) /
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Focusing on the abundant Middle Palaeolithic sites in the Salento region of Southern Italy, this work analyses how Neanderthals used and managed raw materials, through both the procurement and use of the locally available materials and the exploitation of possibly more distant sources.
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784918224 (ebook) :
When archaeology meets communities : impacting interactions in Sicily over two eras (Messina, 1861-1918) /
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'When Archaeology Meets Communities' examines the history of 19th-century Sicilian archaeology through the archival documentation for the excavations at Tindari, Lipari and nearby minor sites in the Messina province, from Italy's Unification to the end of the First World War (1861-1918).
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Previously issued in print: 2018. :
1 online resource (x, 416 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781784917920 (ebook) :
'Poedicvlorvm oppida' : spazi urbani della Puglia Centrale in età Romana /
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The indigenous persistence, texture, articulation, shape and functionality of the urban definition of the municipia in central Apulia demonstrate the nature of the complex history and settlement of this area in the long period between the age of Romanization and the 3rd century AD. The comprehensive collection and examination of the material evidence make it possible to reconstruct - for the first time, in an organic manner and in a global framework - the profile of the urban space of 'poediculorum oppida'.
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Previously issued in print: 2017. :
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white). :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784915933 (ebook) :
The ancient Mediterranean environment between science and history /
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Scientists, historians and archaeologists are at last beginning to collaborate seriously on studies of the long-term history of the environment. The fruit of an international conference held in Rome in 2011, The Ancient Mediterranean Environment between Science and History brings together scientists and scholars who are interested in the interaction of their several disciplines as well as in specific problems such as the effects of climate change and other environmental factors on historical developments and events, the sources of the energy and fuel used in ancient civilizations, and the effects of humans on the lands around the Mediterranean. The collection balances broad Mediterranean-wide studies and tightly focused studies of particular regions in Italy and Jordan.
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Papers presented at a conference held in Rome in 2011. :
1 online resource (xxi, 332 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004254053 :
0166-1302 ; :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Investigations into the dyeing industry in Pompeii : experimental archaeology and computer simulation techniques /
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The scale of processing associated with the dyeing industry in Pompeii is a controversial subject. To determine the scale of manufacturing would allow an understanding of the operation of Pompeii's economy and its part in the Roman World. Previous studies have taken a theoretical approach, and no conclusive answer has been reached. Conversely, this book uses a new multi-disciplinary triangulated approach. A replica was constructed to gauge the operating parameters of a dyeing apparatus within the framework of the principles of experimental archaeology. The remains were re-examined in situ with the new operational and ergonomics understanding. The replica was amended to allow exploration of design features and ventilation. The throughput of the apparatus was placed within the context of the industry with modern manufacturing systems theory.
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Also issued in print: 2022. :
1 online resource (viii, 200 pages) : illustrations, maps. :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789697438 (PDF ebook) :