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Un-Roman Sex explores how gender and sex were perceived and
represented outside the Mediterranean core of the Roman Empire. The
volume critically explores the gender constructs and sexual
behaviours in the provinces and frontiers in light of recent
studies of Roman erotic experience and flux gender identities. At
its core, it challenges the unproblematised extension of the
traditional Romano-Hellenistic model to the provinces and
frontiers. Did sexual relations and gender identities undergo
processes of "provincialisation" or "barbarisation" similar to
other well-known aspects of cultural negotiation and syncretism in
provincial and border regions, for example in art and religion? The
11 chapters that make up the volume explore these issues from a
variety of angles, providing a balanced and rounded view through
use of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence.
Accordingly, the contributions represent new and emerging ideas on
the subject of sex, gender, and sexuality in the Roman provinces.
As such, Un-Roman Sex will be of interest to higher-level
undergraduates and graduates/academics studying the Roman empire,
gender, and sexuality in the ancient world and at the Roman
frontiers.
There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late Roman
frontier in the English language to date, despite the political and
economic significance of the frontiers in the late antique period.
Examining Hadrian's Wall and the Roman frontier of northern England
from the fourth century into the Early Medieval period, this book
investigates a late frontier in transition from an imperial border
zone to incorporation into Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, using both
archaeological and documentary evidence. With an emphasis on the
late Roman occupation and Roman military, it places the frontier in
the broader imperial context. In contrast to other works, Hadrian's
Wall and the End of Empire challenges existing ideas of decline,
collapse, and transformation in the Roman period, as well as its
impact on local frontier communities. Author Rob Collins analyzes
in detail the limitanei, the frontier soldiers of the late empire
essential for the successful maintenance of the frontiers, and the
relationship between imperial authorities and local frontier
dynamics. Finally, the impact of the end of the Roman period in
Britain is assessed, as well as the influence that the frontier had
on the development of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria.
Un-Roman Sex explores how gender and sex were perceived and
represented outside the Mediterranean core of the Roman Empire. The
volume critically explores the gender constructs and sexual
behaviours in the provinces and frontiers in light of recent
studies of Roman erotic experience and flux gender identities. At
its core, it challenges the unproblematised extension of the
traditional Romano-Hellenistic model to the provinces and
frontiers. Did sexual relations and gender identities undergo
processes of "provincialisation" or "barbarisation" similar to
other well-known aspects of cultural negotiation and syncretism in
provincial and border regions, for example in art and religion? The
11 chapters that make up the volume explore these issues from a
variety of angles, providing a balanced and rounded view through
use of literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence.
Accordingly, the contributions represent new and emerging ideas on
the subject of sex, gender, and sexuality in the Roman provinces.
As such, Un-Roman Sex will be of interest to higher-level
undergraduates and graduates/academics studying the Roman empire,
gender, and sexuality in the ancient world and at the Roman
frontiers.
Aimed at those educators who wish to make their practice more
consistent with progressive educational principles, namely helping
learners to take greater control over planning and managing their
own learning. The book contains a balance of theory and practical
suggestions.
Aimed at those educators who wish to make their practice more
consistent with progressive educational principles, namely helping
learners to take greater control over planning and managing their
own learning. The book contains a balance of theory and practical
suggestions.
There is no synthetic or comprehensive treatment of any late
Roman frontier in the English language to date, despite the
political and economic significance of the frontiers in the late
antique period. Examining Hadrian's Wall and the Roman frontier of
northern England from the fourth century into the Early Medieval
period, this book investigates a late frontier in transition from
an imperial border zone to incorporation into Anglo-Saxon kingdoms,
using both archaeological and documentary evidence. With an
emphasis on the late Roman occupation and Roman military, it places
the frontier in the broader imperial context.
In contrast to other works, Hadrian's Wall and the End of Empire
challenges existing ideas of decline, collapse, and transformation
in the Roman period, as well as its impact on local frontier
communities. Author Rob Collins analyzes in detail the limitanei,
the frontier soldiers of the late empire essential for the
successful maintenance of the frontiers, and the relationship
between imperial authorities and local frontier dynamics. Finally,
the impact of the end of the Roman period in Britain is assessed,
as well as the influence that the frontier had on the development
of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria.
The Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) was
funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund to promote the value
of heritage – specifically of the Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage
Site – to local communities, and to provide opportunities for
volunteers to engage with the archaeology and conservation of the
Wall to better ensure the future of the monument. This short book
provides a summary of the project, communicating the range of
activities undertaken during the project and key results. It
explores the structure and aims of the project, and creates an
insightful overview of the many different people and communities
that participated. Archaeological fieldwork resulted in a number of
new discoveries and insights into Hadrian’s Wall. The
revolutionary new work to explore the stones of Hadrian’s Wall,
its source geology and how stones were reused from the monument is
also discussed. Each chapter is supported by full colour
illustrations, and contributions from project volunteers also bring
the project into a vibrant focus.
Lindsay Allason-Jones has been at the forefront of small finds and
Roman frontier research for 40 years in a career focussed on, but
not exclusive to, the north of Britain, encompassing an enormous
range of object types and subject areas. Divided into thematic
sections the contributions presented here to celebrate her many
achievements all represent at least one aspect of Lindsay's
research interests. These encompass social and industrial aspects
of northern frontier forts; new insights into inscribed and
sculptural stones specific to military communities; religious,
cultural and economic connotations of Roman armour finds; the
economic and ideological penetration of romanitas in the frontiers
as reflected by individual objects and classes of finds; evidence
of trans-frontier interactions and invisible people; the role of
John Clayton in the exploration and preservation of Hadrian's Wall
and its material culture; the detailed consideration of individual
objects of significant interest; and a discussion of the widespread
occurrence of mice in Roman art.
"Get a Life, Not Just a Job" is an unconventional guide to finding
your ideal career. It will help you to identify what really makes
you tick and discover work that you love. The author describes in
detail a tried'n'tested methodology which has been scientifically
proven to be approximately 3 billion times better than any career
advice you might have received at school or college. WARNING: The
book contains swearing, lots of humour and other adult themes.
The title refers to the hardship, suffering, hunger and death that
began that year and continued for four more heartbreaking years.
The title refers to the insensitivity and lack of control on
English absentee landlords who took full advantage of the British
government's policy to "let them do as they very well please," and
they did. Often, an Irish family was evicted from their cottage
without notice and for no apparant reason. The book's cover depicts
a barran landscape. They are all gone, gone on the ships to Canada,
to America to avoid, in many cases, starvation. They were evicted,
their homes destroyed, the grounds cleared of rubble to convert
pasture to farm land for crops. The British called it "clearance
improvements." A land of plenty had not the care or compassion to
provide adequate measures to insure the health and the satisfaction
of their hunger, their own citizens. The barran landscape depicts
the emptiness felt when a son or daughter left for a new life in a
foreign land, never to be seen again.
Thirteen papers, from a conference held in York in 2003, examine
the fate of Roman Britain, the nature of the Saxon immigration and
the independence of western Britain in the face of refugees from
the east. Drawing on archaeological and material evidence, the
papers discuss: the existence or otherwise of the Dark Ages';
portable art as evidence of people remaining Roman; coast and
countryside in the south west; palaeoenvironmental evidence for
changes in the southwest; South Cadbury; the transformation of
Roman estates; pottery and the 5th century in southwest Britain;
artefacts in early medieval graves; Poundbury; a comparison between
religious heresy and political dissent in Britain and Syria;
Hadrian's Wall in the 4th century and after. Contributors: Neil
Faulkmer, Martin Henig, Sam Turner, Ralph Fyfe, Stephen Rippon,
John Davey, Simon Draper, James Gerrard, David Petts, Howard
Williams, Christopher Sparey-Green, Daniel Hull, Rob Collins .
Foreword by Philip Rahtz.
What is Hadrian’s Wall made of, where did this material come from
and how has it been reused in other buildings in the communities
that emerged in the centuries after the Roman Empire? By studying
the fabric of Hadrian’s Wall using a geological approach combined
with archaeological methods, is it possible to refine our answers
to these questions? This study describes how the relationship
between the geology of the Wall’s landscape and its fabric may be
used to further understand the Wall and presents a significant set
of new geological and archaeological data on the Wall’s stones
from across the length of the Wall. This data set has been
collected in two complementary ways. First as a citizen-science
project, where volunteers from local communities were trained to
visually characterise sandstones and resulting in data collecting
on large numbers of the Wall’s stones along the length of the
Wall. Secondly, analytical research was used to gather in
scientific data for a selected sets of rocks and stones.
Geochemical data was captured using an X-ray fluorescence
spectrometer, and petrographic observations made using a
petrographic microscope and thin sections.The combined methods
provide a framework for geological analysis of the Wall supported
by robust data. It builds on earlier work on Roman quarrying and
stone preparation highlighting not only stone sources, but the
criteria for choosing stone, stone preparation methods, and the
implied routes to the Wall. At the heart of this study lies the
ability to uniquely identify different sandstone types. Geological
methods used to achieve this are explored, as are the ways in which
the sandstones form. This highlights both the possibilities and
limits of this approach.
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