Architectures of the Roman World: Models, Agency, Reception - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789259940 ISBN 13: 9781789259940

Verlag: Oxbow Books, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

These case studies provide an interdisciplinary reassessment of the function, impact, and significance of architecture within local cultures and the dynamic relationship between periphery and center of the Roman Empire.

This book collects essays by international scholars who engage with Roman-period architecture outside Rome and the Italian Peninsula, looking at the regions that formed part of the Roman Empire over a broad time frame: from the second century BCE to the third century CE. Moving beyond traditional views of ‘Roman provincial architecture’, the aim is to highlight the multi-faceted features of these architectures, their function, impact and significance within the local cultures, and the dynamic discourse between periphery and center. Architecture is intended in the broad sense of the term, encompassing the buildings’ technological components as well as their ornamental and epigraphic apparatuses. The geographic framework under examination is a broad one: along with well-documented areas of the ancient Mediterranean, attention is also paid to the territories of north-west Europe. The discussion throughout the volume focuses on three interrelated themes – models, agency, and reception. The broader scope of these essays is to give a reinvigorated impetus to the scholarly debate on the role and influence of ancient architectures beyond the center of Empire. The book has a strong interdisciplinary character, which reflects the authors’ diverse expertise in the fields of archaeology, architecture, ancient history, art and architectural history.

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Niccolò Mugnai is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the British School at Rome and at the University of Leicester, where he completed his doctorate in 2016. His main research interests are Greco-Roman architecture, urbanism, and the archaeology of the Roman provinces.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxbow Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1789259940
• ISBN 13: 9781789259940
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 239
• Herausgeber: Mugnai Niccol
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