Law and Power

Agents of Social and Spatial Transformation in the Roman West
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-68572-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Impact of Empire

In the Roman world, landscapes became legal and institutional constructions, being the core of social, political, religious, and economic life. The Romans developed ambitious urban transformations, seeking to equate civic monumentality and legal status. The built environment becomes the axis of the legal, administrative, sacred, and economic system and the main element of dissemination of imperial ideology. This volume follows the modern trend of a multifaceted, composite, multi-layered Roman world, but at the same time reduces its complexity. It views ‘Roman’ not only in the sense of power politics, but also in a cultural context. It highlights ‘landscapes’ and puts into the shadow important administrative and legal structures, i.e., individuals viz. local and imperial members of the elites living in cities, which ran the Roman world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Mataix Ferrándiz, Emilia

Garcia, Antonio Lopez

Alvarez Melero, Anthony

Vera, Diego Romero

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Table

Notes on Editors and Contributors

1 Introduction

Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz and Anthony Álvarez Melero

Part 1: Integration

2 Imperial Ideology and the Making of Baetican Epigraphic Landscapes

Javier Herrera Rando

3 Gone with the Law: The Survival of Latin Onomastics in a Peregrinorum Hispania during the Republic

Cristina de la Escosura Balbás

4 Quattuorviratus and Latium in Hispania

David Espinosa Espinosa

Part 2: Acculturation

5 Collective Organisation of Matrons in Monarchic and Republican Rome and Its Visibility in Public Spaces

Daniel León Ardoy

6 The Role of Women in Shaping the Funerary Landscape of Ostia and Portus

Francisco Cidoncha-Redondo

7 Public and Private Employment of Marmora in Italica: A Symbol of Power and Romanness

Daniel Becerra Fernández

8 Damnosa Hereditas? Italica and the Imperial Evergetism: An Approach to the Urban Vitality of the Colony in the Post-Hadrian Period (AD 138–211)

Diego Romero Vera

9 Home, Honour, Hispania: The Case of L. Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus

Anna-Maria Wilskman

Part 3: Interconnectedness

10 Between Mauretania and Numidia

Provincial Boundaries, Land Connections and Imperial Administration in North Africa (1st–4th Centuries AD)

Sergio España-Chamorro

11 Blurred Boundaries and Terrestrial Connections between Baetica and Tarraconensis

The Territorium of Acci and the Influence of the Landscape

Antonio López García

General Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz is a Maria Zambrano fellow at the University of the Basque Country. She has published extensively on Roman law and its maritime focus. She is the editor of two volumes, Roman law and Maritime Commerce (EUP 2022) and Seafaring and Mobility in the Late Antique Mediterranean (Bloomsbury 2022). She is also the author of one monograph Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms: Gone under Sea (Brill 2022).

Antonio Lopez García is a lecturer of archaeology at the University of Granada. He is specialized in Roman archaeology and topography. As a field archaeologist, he has participated in numerous international projects in Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom and directed two archaeological excavations in Spain.

Anthony Álvarez Melero, Ph.D. (2010), Université libre de Bruxelles-Universidad de Sevilla, is Associate professor at the Universidad de Sevilla. He has published monographs, papers and articles on Roman Imperial and social History.

Diego Romero Vera is a lecturer of archaeology at the University of Seville. He has completed his postdoctoral training at the Ausonius Centre of the University of Bordeau-Montaigne. His research has been mainly focusing on the urban evolution of the Roman cities in Iberia during Antonine Age and on the dynamism of these cities from the study of Epigraphical Sources.

Contributors are: Javier Herrera Rando, Cristina de la Escosura Balbás, David Espinosa Espinosa, Daniel León Ardoy, Francisco Cidoncha-Redondo, Daniel Becerra Fernández, Diego Romero Vera, Anna-Maria Wilskman, Sergio España-Chamorro.