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With the help of over 100 illustrations, many of them little known,
Martin Henig shows that the art produced in Britannia--particularly
in the golden age of Late Antiquity--rivals that of other provinces
and deserves comparison with the art of metropolitan Rome. The
originality and breadth of Henig's study is shown by its systematic
coverage, embracing both the major arts--stone and bronze statuary,
wall-painting and mosaics--and such applied arts as
jewelery-making, silversmithing, furniture design, figure pottery,
figurines and appliques. The author explains how the various
workshops were organized, the part played by patronage and the
changes that occurred in the fourth century.
Apart from Christianity and the Oriental Cults, religion in Roman
Britain is often discussed as though it remained basically Celtic
in belief and practice, under a thin veneer of Roman influence.
Using a wide range of archaeological evidence, Dr Henig shows that
the Roman element in religion was of much greater significance and
that the natural Roman veneration for the gods found meaningful
expression even in the formal rituals practised in the public
temples of Britain.
Apart from Christianity and the Oriental Cults, religion in Roman
Britain is often discussed as though it remained basically Celtic
in belief and practice, under a thin veneer of Roman influence.
Using a wide range of archaeological evidence, Dr Henig shows that
the Roman element in religion was of much greater significance and
that the natural Roman veneration for the gods found meaningful
expression even in the formal rituals practised in the public
temples of Britain.
With the help of over 100 illustrations, many of them little known,
Martin Henig shows that the art produced in Britannia--particularly
in the golden age of Late Antiquity--rivals that of other provinces
and deserves comparison with the art of metropolitan Rome. The
originality and breadth of Henig's study is shown by its systematic
coverage, embracing both the major arts--stone and bronze statuary,
wall-painting and mosaics--and such applied arts as
jewelery-making, silversmithing, furniture design, figure pottery,
figurines and appliques. The author explains how the various
workshops were organized, the part played by patronage and the
changes that occurred in the fourth century.
This is a collection of eighteen papers presented at a conference
that was held at the Hatfield Campus of the University of
Hertfordshire with 122 members and guests from the United Kingdom,
the United States of America, Germany and Norway were present. The
papers are on the research on various aspects of the art and
architecture of the abbey, at St Albans and provides an ideal forum
for bringing together many aspects of the abbey's history.
A concise, clearly written introduction to the early past of
Britain and Europe from the beginnings up to the twelfth century
AD, which presents archaeological research in a readily
understandable form. Written, and originally published in 1973, for
readers with no specialist knowledge or the subject, a major virtue
of this book is the way in which it brings into focus all the
separate strands of evidence to present a coherent narrative
development. The account starts with a brief survey of human
evolution and a consideration of the evidence of tool-making in the
Old Stone Age. It goes on to describe the origins and spread of
farming and the subsequent development of metallurgy and full urban
civilization and the contribution made by the urban civilization of
Rome to the development of Europe. It looks at the Migration Period
through to the reestablishment of urban culture in northern Europe
concluding with a brief description of conditions in the twelfth
century.
Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British
Countryside had its genesis in a conference held at the British
Museum in 2009 and brings together a range of papers on buildings
that have been categorised as 'villas', mainly in Roman Britain,
from the Isle of Wight to Shropshire. It comprises the first such
survey for almost half a century. While some of these structures
were indeed country houses and the centres of agricultural estates
as their designation as 'villas' implies, others are here shown to
have been administrative or industrial centres, hunting lodges or
religious sanctuaries, or a combination of more than one such
function. The art associated with these prestige structures and its
relevance to their function is also considered.
Water in the Roman World: Engineering, Trade, Religion and Daily
Life offers a wide and expansive new treatment of the role water
played in the lives of people across the Roman world. Individual
papers deal with ports and their lighthouses; with water
engineering, whether for canals in the north-west provinces, or for
the digging of wells for drinking water, and for multiple other
purposes; with baths for swimming; and with spas. Further papers
explore religion in water-sanctuaries and the deposition of objects
in rivers as well as deities connected with water, including river
gods and nymphs. A final chapter provides an overview of subjects
not fully covered elsewhere, including warships and naval battles,
trade and navigation, aqueducts, fishing and fish-farming, and
literary response to watery landscapes, rivers and lakes. The
latter include works by great landowners such as the younger Pliny
with his Laurentine villa beside the sea west of Rome or by poets,
among them Catullus enjoying Lake Garda and Ausonius with his
loving description of the River Moselle. The contributors address
the subject in a variety of different ways, as Classicists drawing
largely on literature, archaeologists with experience of excavating
the watery environment, and art-historians. The papers range from
the theoretical, with particular interest in materiality, to more
lyrical approaches which address the Romans with their problems as
well as their pleasures.
This volume comprises a collection of essays in memory of the late
John Rhodes by some of his many friends and colleagues. They salute
a remarkable individual of wide tastes and interests. His
achievements in the conservation, study and recording of the past
from the Roman period to the present day, both in museums and in
the field, were prodigious. The aim of the book is to follow the
tradition of English antiquarian scholarship by taking three
approaches: the study of individual monuments and objects, the
investigation of the manner in which that study is reflected in
their present-day care and interpretation, and the study of the
wider implications of such approaches.
Papers in Honour of Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle.
Contents: Preface (Martin Henig and Nigel Ramsay); Martin Biddle
and Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle: An Appreciation (Martin Henig, Thomas
Beaumont James, Anthony King and Nigel Ramsay); List of
Publications of Martin Biddle and of Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle
(Compiled by Anthony King); Commendation by Queen Margrethe II of
Denmark; 1) A Roman Silver Jug with Biblical Scenes from the
Treasure found at Traprain Law (Kenneth Painter); 2) Hand-washing
and Foot-washing, Sacred and Secular, in Late Antiquity and the
Early Medieval Period (Anthea Harris and Martin Henig); 3)
Christian Origins at Gloucester: A Topographical Inquiry (Carolyn
Heighway); 4) New Evidence for the Transition from the Late Roman
to the Saxon Period at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London (Alison
Telfer); 5) Ethnic Identity and the Origins, Purpose and Occurrence
of Pattern-Welded Swords in Sixth-Century Kent: The Case of the
Saltwood Cemetery (Brian Gilmour);"
This collection of essays brings together some of the biggest names
in British archaeology to pay tribute to Sonia Chadwick Hawkes. The
bulk of the essays are, as one might expect on Anglo-Saxon
archaeology, culture and society, amny of them on sites in Kent,
with a section on antiquarianism and collecting, and a section
looking back at the life and career of Sonia Chadwick Hawkes.
This volume contains a range of papers from a seminar held in
Oxford in 2005. What did art in its widest sense mean to them, the
Romans, and what might it (or even should it), mean to us? The
approach adopted avoids fashionable theory, mainly culled
second-hand from the social sciences, and tries to engage directly
with material culture.
Fourteen enjoyable papers, from the Theoretical Archaeology
Conference held in Oxford in December 2000, which reflect on the
relationship between archaeology and the outside world' and
investigate the meaning of archaeology to the general public and
the relevance of archaeology to society. Essays examine the
development of archaeology as a discipline through the medieval,
Romantic and Post-Modern eras, looking, for example, at the
treatment of archaeological themes in the works of Mary Shelley and
Byron. Contributors also consider the impact of Stonehenge on
astronomical studies, the influence of Roman finds and sites,
including Bath and Caerleon, on Edwardian jewellery and children's
stories and the dramatisation of the Iceman's' discovery in a
recent play.
The desire for things which are inspired by, imitate, or indeed are
Greek, or Greco-Roman has been felt throughout history. The twenty
contributions in this volume explore the presence and diffusion of
what they term 'The Classical Taste' from the 5th century BC to the
20th century focusing on the methods and media through which this
occurs. Including discussions on vase painting, ancient gems, the
image of Alexander the Great, Roman medallions, cameos, statuettes
and portraits, and the reception of Classicism in the medieval,
Renaissance and modern periods.
Contents: Religion and Art in St Alban's City; The late antique
Passion of St Alban; Britain's Other Martyrs: Julius, Aaron and
Alban at Caerleon; The Origins of St Albans Abbey: Romano-British
Cemetery and Anglo-Saxon Monastery; Offa, AElfric and the
Refoundation of St Albans: The Alban Cross; Early Recycling: The
Anglo-Saxon and Norman Re-use of Roman Bricks with special
reference to Hertfordshire; The Medieval Building Stones of St
Albans ABbey; Remembering St Alban: the Site of the Shrine and the
Discovery of the Twelfth-century Purbeck Marble Shrine Table; The
Place of St Albans in Regional Sculpture and Architecture in the
Second Half of the Twelfth Century; The Thirteenth-century West
Front of St Albans Abbey; The Gothic Reconstruction of the Nave and
Presbytery of St Albans Abbey; A Survey and Dating of the Timber
Structures in the Central Tower of the Abbey Church; Pilgrims'
Souvenir Badges of St Alban; The St Albans Monks and the Cult of St
Alban: the Late Medieval Texts; The Chantry of Humphrey, Duke of
Gloucester; The Great Screen and its Context. By a variety of
contributors
This is the first comprehensive catalogue of the sculpture from
this region of Roman Britain, including the first proper record of
the sculpture from Wroxeter. The sculptures, all in local
sandstone, were carved locally and provide an index of Romanisation
in the far north-west of the Roman Empire - at the Fortress of
Legio II Adivtrix and then Legio XX Valeria Victrix at Devra
(Chester), and at the Fortress and subsequently the civil town of
the Cornovii at Viroconium (Wroxeter). The sculpture from Letcetum
(Wall, Staffs) is also considered. The works range in quality from
highly accomplished and decorative altars and tombstones, to rather
ham-fisted efforts which hint that it was not always possible to
attract sculptors to these relatively remote places. Such factors
are discussed in an extended introduction.
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