Richard Hingley here asks the questions: What is Romanization? Was Rome the first global culture? Romanization has been represented as a simple progression from barbarism to civilization. Roman forms ...in architecture, coinage, language and literature came to dominate the world from Britain to Syria. Hingley argues for a more complex and nuanced view in which Roman models provided the means for provincial elites to articulate their own concerns. Inhabitants of the Roman provinces were able to develop identities they never knew they had until Rome gave them the language to express them. Hingley draws together the threads of diverse and separate study, in one sophisticated theoretical framework that spans the whole Roman Empire. Students of Rome and those with an interest in classical cultural studies will find this an invaluable mine of information.
'A valuable addition to the scholarly literature.' - BMCR
'The explicit recognition of the complex relationship between past and present is one of the book's many strengths... a sophisticated and nuanced picture of 'Roman' identities... this book will do much to set the tone for a new generation of studies of the Roman World.' - Britannia
Specialist in Roman studies, with a particular focus upon Roman imperialism and the context of Roman research. Lecturer in Roman archaeology at the University of Durham. Author of Roman Officers and English Gentleman (Routledge 2000) and Images of Rome (Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2001).
Londinium Richard Hingley, Hingley; Christina Unwin, Unwin
2018/01/01, 2018-08-23
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This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a broad overview of the city from its foundation to the fifth century AD. Richard ...Hingley explores the archaeological and historical evidence for London under the Romans, assessing the city in the context of its province and the wider empire. He explores the multiple functions of Londinium over time, considering economy, industry, trade, status and urban infrastructure, but also looking at how power, status, gender and identity are reflected through the materiality of the terrain and waterscape of the evolving city. A particular focus of the book is the ritual and religious context in which these activities occurred.
This article addresses questions relating to the ‘Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site’ and seeks to introduce into this initiative some concepts derived from recent writings on ...contemporary mobilities and bordering, exploring the possibility of creating greater engagement between the two academic fields of ‘border studies’ and ‘Roman Frontier Studies’. By examining the relationship between the Roman Frontiers initiative and the European Union's stated aims of integration and the dissolution of borders, it argues in favour of crossing intellectual borders between the study of the present and the past to promote the value of the Roman frontiers as a means of reflecting on contemporary problems facing Europe. This article considers the potential roles of Roman Frontier Studies in this debate by emphasizing frontiers as places of encounter and transformation. L'article ci-dessus traite du site du patrimoine mondial que constituent les « Frontières de l'Empire romain » et cherche à introduire dans cette initiative certains concepts formulés dans des écrits récents sur la mobilité et la délimitation des frontières contemporaines dans le but d’étudier la possibilité de créer une collaboration plus étroite entre les deux domaines que sont l’étude des frontières actuelles et l’étude des frontières romaines. L'examen des rapports entre l'initiative sur les « Frontières de l'Empire romain » et les objectifs fondamentaux d'intégration et de dissolution des frontières de l'Union européenne nous mène à proposer une approche qui transcende les frontières intellectuelles entre l’étude du passé et celle du présent et de promouvoir les valeurs que représentent les frontières romaines comme moyen de réflexion sur les problèmes auxquels l'Europe se trouve confrontée aujourd'hui. Dans cet article nous examinons l'influence que les études sur les frontières romaines pourraient avoir dans ce débat en soulignant le rôle des frontières comme lieux de rencontre et de transformation. Translation by Madeleine Hummler
In diesem Artikel wird das Weltkulturerbe „Grenzen des Römischen Reiches“ besprochen, und es wird versucht, einige Konzepte, die von neueren Veröffentlichungen über Mobilität und Begrenzungen in der heutigen Welt beeinflusst sind, in diese Initiative einzuführen; es wird auch versucht, eine engere Zusammenarbeit zwischen den wissenschaftlichen Feldern, die sich den modernen Grenzen und den römischen Grenzen widmen, zu fördern. Die Auswertung der Zusammenhänge zwischen dem Projekt „Grenzen des Römischen Reiches“ und den grundsätzlichen Zielen der Integrierung und Abschaffung der Grenzen innerhalb der Europäischen Union führt zur Empfehlung, intellektuelle Grenzen zwischen dem Studium der Gegenwart und der Vergangenheit zu überschreiten, um den Wert der römischen Grenzen als Mittel einer Betrachtung der aktuellen Grenzproblemen Europas zu fördern. Die potenzielle Bedeutung der römischen Grenzen in dieser Debatte, vor allem ihre Rolle als Orte der Begegnung und des Wandels wird hier betont. Translation by Madeleine Hummler
There is a lack of detailed research into the attitudes of the public in Britain to the Roman past. Information and views about the Roman period are communicated to people in the UK through education ...at school and also by the media (TV, films, the Internet). Museums and other heritage centres also provide interpretations for visitors, although these venues tend to cater for people who have progressed to a fairly advanced level in the educational system. This paper explores the public debate resulting from the BBC cartoon of a 'Roman family' in Britain (Beard,
2017
). It argues that some of the extreme reactions to the idea that people came from North Africa to settle and to live in Roman Britain may have drawn upon some old-fashioned ideas about the past that have persisted in school education in England. It appears to be difficult for certain members of the public to understand that ideas about the past that they learnt at school were interpretations rather than 'facts' and that knowledge is constantly changing. That society in the Roman empire was highly mobile provides particularly informative parallels for modern Britons. To exploit this potential, however, will require archaeologists to take a more direct interest in communicating their research to a broader range of audiences.
An extensively illustrated study of the origins of English and Scottish identity in the reading of classical texts which enabled authors and artists to imagine the character and appearance of their ...forebears. Richard Hingley relates ideas derived from Roman sources to the development of empire, and places theories of origin in a European context.
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