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Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain

By Adam Rogers

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2013
ISBN
9004247874, 9789004247871
ISSN
0169-8958
Google Books ID
PxAfvkoSvW0C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3813301 bytes)
Series
Mnemosyne Supplements 355
Pages
xiv+278\293
Topic
History Archaeology
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2013-06-16 19:56:58

Description

'Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain' offers a new perspective for investigating Roman settlement and how urban spaces were created and experienced by focusing on the relationship between settlement and water and the meanings attributed to these places. Rather than a descriptive approach to the urban fabric it emphasises social context and cultural meaning through interpretative frameworks of analysis. Central are the cultural and experiential implications of water forming part of towns, rather than economic and practical arguments, and the way in which these places were used and altered over time. The book emphasises a social approach and has considerable implications for our understanding of life in the Roman period as a whole.

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