Die römischen Bürgerkriege : Archäologie und Geschichte einer Krisenzeit
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 33422265
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Verlag Philipp von Zabern GmbH
- ISBN
- 9783805349130
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is the result of years of detailed work on modern theoretical approaches to civil war and conflict in the Roman world, ancient literary engagement with the crisis of the last two centuries of the Roman republic, and archaeological evidence in this period from Italy and the wider Mediterranean, including knowledge and experience obtained on extensive archaeological fieldwork. The truly integrated approach to literary, historical, architectural and archaeological sources meant substantial engagement with these sources as well as a wide range of scholarship.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This book deals with the role of civil war’s internecine violence in the shaping of Roman Late Republican art and architecture. The aspects of violence and destruction are set against the activities of building, artistic creation and consumption across central Italy in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. Combining modern theories of crisis and Late Republican material culture (architecture, art, funerary practices, material evidence) in Italy and the wider Mediterranean, the book discusses the concept of ‘crisis’ in detail, stressing the active participation of human agents in shaping their own immediate future by drawing upon past experiences and generational knowledge. The aim of the book is to sketch out a range of scenarios, from central Italy and Rome to the wider Mediterranean basin and based upon an integrated reading of the literary sources and the archaeological material, that bring the reader closer to the communities and individuals living through the turbulent decades of the late republican period. It focuses on the connections between the micro and the macro level which have been identified as crucial factors in recent research on the dynamics and effects of civil wars. Drawing upon a range of case studies, from monumental building to public dining, the book demonstrates that the harsh realities and disruptions of civil war sit right at the core of the late republican paroxysm: they were fuelled by the increasing complexity of urban life and conspicuous consumption which gave rise to greed and violent appropriation, but by the forceful and premature promotion of new ‘controlling generations’, they also played a vital role in conditioning the worldviews and socio-cultural norms that regulated the use of material culture. Through an integrated reading of archaeology and literary sources, the book analyses this fundamental relationship between civil conflict and cultural transformation in the late republican period.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The book’s title is translated as ‘The Roman Civil Wars: Archaeology and History in a Crisis Period’. The book deals with the role of civil war’s internecine violence in the shaping of Roman Late Republican art and architecture in Rome and central Italy (in wider Mediterranean context) in the second and first centuries BC. Combining modern theories of crisis and Late Republican material culture (architecture, art, funerary practices, material evidence), the book discusses the concept of ‘crisis’ in detail, stressing the active participation of human agents in shaping their own immediate future by drawing upon past experiences and generational knowledge.
