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Author : Anna Halina Walas
Release : 2016
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Book Synopsis Roman Military Bases as Social Spaces by : Anna Halina Walas
Download or read book Roman Military Bases as Social Spaces written by Anna Halina Walas. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Penelope M. Allison
Release : 2013
Genre : Fortification, Roman
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Book Synopsis People and Spaces in Roman Military Bases by : Penelope M. Allison
Download or read book People and Spaces in Roman Military Bases written by Penelope M. Allison. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses artefact analyses to investigate complex spatial and community relationships inside the walls of early Roman imperial military bases.
Author : Penelope M. Allison
Release : 2013-10-31
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis People and Spaces in Roman Military Bases by : Penelope M. Allison
Download or read book People and Spaces in Roman Military Bases written by Penelope M. Allison. This book was released on 2013-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses artefact analyses to investigate complex spatial and community relationships inside the walls of early Roman imperial military bases.
Author : Simon James
Release : 2019-02-14
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Roman Military Base at Dura-Europos, Syria by : Simon James
Download or read book The Roman Military Base at Dura-Europos, Syria written by Simon James. This book was released on 2019-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dura-Europos, a Parthian-ruled Greco-Syrian city, was captured by Rome c.AD165. It then accommodated a Roman garrison until its destruction by Sasanian siege c.AD256. Excavations of the site between the World Wars made sensational discoveries, and with renewed exploration from 1986 to 2011, Dura remains the best-explored city of the Roman East. A critical revelation was a sprawling Roman military base occupying a quarter of the city's interior. This included swathes of civilian housing converted to soldiers' accommodation and several existing sanctuaries, as well as baths, an amphitheatre, headquarters, and more temples added by the garrison. Base and garrison were clearly fundamental factors in the history of Roman Dura, but what impact did they have on the civil population? Original excavators gloomily portrayed Durenes evicted from their homes and holy places, and subjected to extortion and impoverishment by brutal soldiers, while recent commentators have envisaged military-civilian concordia, with shared prosperity and integration. Detailed examination of the evidence presents a new picture. Through the use of GPS, satellite, geophysical and archival evidence, this volume shows that the Roman military base and resident community were even bigger than previously understood, with both military and civil communities appearing much more internally complex than has been allowed until now. The result is a fascinating social dynamic which we can partly reconstruct, giving us a nuanced picture of life in a city near the eastern frontier of the Roman world.
Author : Sam Griffiths
Release : 2016-06-10
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Spatial Cultures by : Sam Griffiths
Download or read book Spatial Cultures written by Sam Griffiths. This book was released on 2016-06-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present announces an innovative research agenda for urban studies in which themes and methods from urban history, social theory and built environment research are brought into dialogue across disciplinary and chronological boundaries. The collection confronts the recurrent epistemological impasse that arises between research focussing on the description of material built environments and that which is concerned primarily with the people who inhabit, govern and write about cities past and present. A reluctance to engage substantively with this issue has been detrimental to scholarly efforts to understand the urban built environment as a meaningful agent of human social experience. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary urban case studies, as well as a selection of theoretical and methodological reflections, the contributions to this volume seek to historically, geographically and architecturally contextualize diverse spatial practices including movement, encounter, play, procession and neighbourhood. The aim is to challenge their tacit treatment as universal categories in much writing on cities and to propose alternative research possibilities with implications as much for urban design thinking as for history and the social sciences.
