Roman Landscape Culture And Identity
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Author | : Diana Spencer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107400244 |
This survey explores how and why Romans of the late Republic and early Principate were fascinated with landscaped nature. Thematic discussions and case studies work through what 'landscape' represented and how studying Roman identity in terms of place, environment and the natural world helps us better to understand Rome itself.
Author | : Dr Joanne Berry |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134778511 |
This provocative and often controversial volume examines concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood, to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from archaeology, classical studies and ancient history to challenge our basic assumptions of Romanization and how parts of Europe became incorporated into a Roman culture. Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire breaks new ground, arguing that the idea of a unified and easily defined Roman culture is over-simplistic, and offering alternative theories and models. This well-documented and timely book presents cultural identity throughout the Roman empire as a complex and diverse issue, far removed from the previous notion of a dichotomy between the Roman invaders and the Barbarian conquered.
Author | : Nico Roymans |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9089643486 |
Monografie over onderzoek naar Romeinse villa's en hun omgeving in de noordelijke provincies van het Romeinse Rijk.
Author | : Himanshu Prabha Ray |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2017-09-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317341295 |
This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing landscape as a dynamic cultural complex in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting. It examines the social and cultural construction of space in the early medieval period in South Asia, as manifest in society, religious architecture and as shaped through trade and economic transactions.
Author | : Jill Burke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351575708 |
From the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth century, Rome was one of the most vibrant and productive centres for the visual arts in the West. Artists from all over Europe came to the city to see its classical remains and its celebrated contemporary art works, as well as for the opportunity to work for its many wealthy patrons. They contributed to the eclecticism of the Roman artistic scene, and to the diffusion of 'Roman' artistic styles in Europe and beyond. Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome is the first book-length study to consider identity creation and artistic development in Rome during this period. Drawing together an international cast of key scholars in the field of Renaissance studies, the book adroitly demonstrates how the exceptional quality of Roman court and urban culture - with its elected 'monarchy', its large foreign population, and unique sense of civic identity - interacted with developments in the visual arts. With its distinctive chronological span and uniquely interdisciplinary approach, Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome puts forward an alternative history of the visual arts in early modern Rome, one that questions traditional periodisation and stylistic categorisation.
Author | : Richard Hingley |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Acculturation |
ISBN | : 9780415351768 |
A study of identity and social change in the Roman empire and the relationship of this knowledge to understanding of the contemporary world.
Author | : Dr Joanne Berry |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134778503 |
This provocative and often controversial volume examines concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood, to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from archaeology, classical studies and ancient history to challenge our basic assumptions of Romanization and how parts of Europe became incorporated into a Roman culture. Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire breaks new ground, arguing that the idea of a unified and easily defined Roman culture is over-simplistic, and offering alternative theories and models. This well-documented and timely book presents cultural identity throughout the Roman empire as a complex and diverse issue, far removed from the previous notion of a dichotomy between the Roman invaders and the Barbarian conquered.
Author | : Rosemary J. Barrow |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107039541 |
Offers analysis of selected works of ancient art through a critical use of cutting-edge theory from gender studies, body studies, and art history.
Author | : Eleanor Betts |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2017-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317057279 |
The Roman empire afforded a kaleidoscope of sensations. Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people, places, buildings and artefacts, and on specific aspects of human behaviour, this volume develops ground-breaking methods and approaches for sensory studies in Roman archaeology and ancient history. Authors explore questions such as: what it felt like, and symbolised, to be showered with saffron at the amphitheatre; why the shape of a dancer’s body made him immediately recognisable as a social outcast; how the dramatic gestures, loud noises and unforgettable smells of a funeral would have different meanings for members of the family and for bystanders; and why feeling the weight of a signet ring on his finger contributed to a man’s sense of identity. A multisensory approach is taken throughout, with each chapter exploring at least two of the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. The contributors’ individual approaches vary, reflecting the possibilities and the wide application of sensory studies to the ancient world. Underlying all chapters is a conviction that taking a multisensory approach enriches our understanding of the Roman empire, but also an awareness of the methodological problems encountered when reconstructing past experiences.
Author | : Victoria Austen |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2023-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350265209 |
This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a number of oppositions, such as inside/outside, sacred/profane, art/nature, and real/imagined. Using case studies from across literature and material and visual culture, Victoria Austen explores the perception of individual garden sites in response to their limits, and showcases how the Romans delighted in playing with concepts of boundedness and separation. Transculturally, the garden is understood as a marked-off and cultivated space. Distinct from their surroundings, gardens are material and symbolic spaces that constitute both universal and culturally specific ways of accommodating the natural world and expressing human attitudes and values. Although we define these spaces explicitly through the notions of separation and division, in many cases we are unable to make sense of the most basic distinction between 'garden' and 'not-garden'. In response to this ambiguity, Austen interrogates the notion of the 'boundary' as an essential characteristic of the Roman garden.