Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World, 150 Bce - 250 CE

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41433-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 431, 582 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1058 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity

The focus of Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World is on urban hierarchies and interactions in large geographical areas rather than on individual cities. Based on a painstaking examination of archaeological and epigraphic evidence relating to more than 1,000 cities, the volume offers comprehensive reconstructions of the urban systems of Roman Gaul, North Africa, Sicily, Greece and Asia Minor. In addition it examines the transformation of the settlement systems of the Iberian Peninsula and the central and northern Balkan following the imposition of Roman rule. Throughout the volume regional urban configurations are examined from a rich variety of perspectives, ranging from climate and landscape, administration and politics, economic interactions and social relationships all the way to region-specific ways of shaping the townscapes of individual cities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ligt, Luuk de

Bintliff, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Luuk de Ligt and John Bintliff

2 A World of 200 Oppida: Pre-Roman Urbanism in Temperate Europe

Manuel Fernández-Götz

3 The Size Distribution of Self-governing Cities in the North-Western Provinces: Trends and Anomalies

Frida Pellegrino

4 The Roman ‘Small Towns’ in the Massif Central (civitates of the Arverni, Vellavii, Gabali, Ruteni, Cadurci and Lemovices): Methodology and Main Results

Florian Baret

5 Towns, Roads and Development Dynamics in the Territory of the Arverni in Roman Times (Auvergne, France)

Frédéric Trément, Florian Baret, Marion Dacko, Jérôme Trescarte, Maxime Calbris, Lise Augustin and Guy Massounie

6 Urbanisation of the Iberian Peninsula during the Roman Period: Choices, Impositions and ‘Resignation’ of the Newcomers

Oliva Rodríguez Gutiérrez

7 The Urban Landscape of Roman Central Adriatic Italy

Frank Vermeulen

8 The Impact of Roman Rule on the Urban System of Sicily

Luuk de Ligt

9 Roman Towns and the Settlement Hierarchy of Ancient North Africa: A Bird’s-Eye View

Matthew Hobson

10 A Diachronic and Regional Approach to North African Urbanism

David Stone

11 Micro-regional Urbanism: An Ancient Urban Landscape in Roman North Africa

Paul Scheding

12 Urbanisation and Population Density: The Case of the ‘Small Municipia’ in the Balkan and Danube Provinces

Damjan Donev

13 Between the River and the Fort: Applying Critical Regionalism to Roman Towns in the Pannonian Basin

Dragana Mladenovic

14 Urban Networks in Early Roman Macedonia and Aegean Thrace

Michalis Karambinis

15 Regional Perspectives on Urbanism and Settlement Patterns in Roman Asia Minor

Rinse Willet

16 From Mountain to Coastal Plain: Settings of Settlements and Stages of Urbanisation in Ancient Lycia

Frank Kolb

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Luuk de Ligt is Professor of Ancient History at Leiden University. He has published widely on economic history, social history, legal history and urban history. His monograph Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers (Cambridge University Press, 2012) has been greeted as a path-breaking contribution to the demographic history of Roman Italy. Between 2013 and 2018 he held a major research grant from the European Research Council (2013-2018) for the project An Empire of 2,000 Cities.

John Bintliff is Emeritus Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Since 1978 he has been co-directing (with Cambridge University) the Boeotia Project. In 2012 he published The Complete Archaeology of Greece: From Hunter-Gatherers to the 20th Century AD (Wiley-Blackwell). Between 2013 and 2018 he co-directed the ERC-funded project An Empire of 2,000 Cities.

List of contributors: Florian Baret, Damjan Donev Eseninova, Matthew S. Hobson, Michalis Karambinis, Frank Kolb Haselweg, Dragana Mladenovic, Oliva Rodríguez Gutiérrez, Frida Pellegrino, Paul Scheding, David L. Stone, Manuel Fernández-Götz, Frédéric Trément, F. Vermeulen, Rinse Willet.