Imagining Roman Britain

Victorian Responses to a Roman Past
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-86193-335-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 61, 220 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Reihe: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series

An examination of how the Roman past was perceived, and used, by Victorian Britain.

The authority of classical texts was challenged in the mid-Victorian era through the unearthing of a very different "Rome" in the material remains under British soil. Developments in archaeology created a new picture of Roman Britain as wealthy and civilized - an image which sat more comfortably with the Victorians' own changing view of empire as they themselves became an imperial power. Changing intellectual ideas ensured that the Roman heritage could nolonger be seen solely as the preserve of the classically educated upper class: excavating with a spade allowed a larger audience to participate and own the Roman past.
This book explores the whole phenomena, using archaeological activity in four British provincial towns (Caerleon, Cirencester, Colchester and Chester) to offer an explanation of how and why it happened, and providing authoritative and fresh insights into the way in which Victorian archaeology emerged, developed and altered how the modern world understood the ancient. In the process, it brings to the fore the frequently contradictory and confused ideas about Roman Britain in the Victorian imagination.

VIRGINIA HOSELITZ gained her PhD at the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoselitz, Virginia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Changing times
A question of identity
Gentlemen and scientists
Isca Silures
Corinium
Camoludonium
Deva
Finding the past in the ground
The picture changes
Conclusion
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

VIRGINIA HOSELITZ gained her PhD at the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.