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Late Roman towns in Britain [electronic resource] : rethinking change and decline / Adam Rogers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Description: xiv, 237 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 936.2/04 22
LOC classification:
  • DA145 .R733 2011
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Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Edward Gibbon : growth, the Golden Age, and decline and fall -- 3. Approaches to Roman urbanism and studying the late Roman town -- 4. Establishing the urban context : pre-Roman place and Roman urbanism -- 5. Structures of the public buildings in the later Roman period : framing place and space -- 6. New public structures within towns in the later Roman period -- 7. Industrial activity within public buildings -- 8. Timber buildings and 'squatter occupation' within public buildings -- 9. Senses of place : rethinking urbanism in late Roman Britain.
Summary: "This book is a reassessment of the changes that occurred in the towns of Britain in the later Roman period, around the late third, fourth and early fifth centuries A.D. It is commonly argued that these changes represent decline in the later Roman Empire but this book suggests alternative ways of interpreting late Roman towns and demonstrates that there are more positive ways of understanding late Roman archaeology. This is a much needed reanalysis bringing new understanding to this crucial period of history"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ebook TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Edward Gibbon : growth, the Golden Age, and decline and fall -- 3. Approaches to Roman urbanism and studying the late Roman town -- 4. Establishing the urban context : pre-Roman place and Roman urbanism -- 5. Structures of the public buildings in the later Roman period : framing place and space -- 6. New public structures within towns in the later Roman period -- 7. Industrial activity within public buildings -- 8. Timber buildings and 'squatter occupation' within public buildings -- 9. Senses of place : rethinking urbanism in late Roman Britain.

"This book is a reassessment of the changes that occurred in the towns of Britain in the later Roman period, around the late third, fourth and early fifth centuries A.D. It is commonly argued that these changes represent decline in the later Roman Empire but this book suggests alternative ways of interpreting late Roman towns and demonstrates that there are more positive ways of understanding late Roman archaeology. This is a much needed reanalysis bringing new understanding to this crucial period of history"-- Provided by publisher.

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