Roman Countryside (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology) (Paperback)
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Short Description for Roman Countryside Stephen Dyson provides a new synthesis, describing current research on the Roman countryside with a topological framework. Focusing on areas where some of the most innovative rural research has been conducted, he discusses what happened during the period of transition.
Full description- Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Published: 01 November 2003
- Format: Paperback 160 pages
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- Categories: Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Archaeology | Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology
- ISBN 13: 9780715632253 ISBN 10: 0715632256
- Sales rank: 1,089,670
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Full description for Roman Countryside
In this work, Stephen Dyson provides a new synthesis, describing current research on the Roman countryside within a topological rather than a geographical or historical framework. He first examines the Roman villa, looking at changing interpretations of the villa and the ways they have been shaped both by new information and evolving interpretative models, relating the survey-settlement evidence to larger questions of landscape use and landscape transformation during the Roman period. Focusing on areas where some of the most innovative rural research has been conducted - Italy, North Africa, Spain and France - he discusses what happened in rural areas in the period of transition between the end of Antiquity and the emergence of medieval society, showing that the period of transition was much longer than previously thought and that there was tremendous variation not only between one part of the Empire and another, but between micro-regions within a single province.
