• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire: 4th Century BC to the 3rd Century AD

Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire: 4th Century BC to the 3rd Century AD

Hardcover

ArchaeologyAncient RomeArchitecture History

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1032586257
ISBN13: 9781032586250
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 3 2024
Pages: 102
Language: English

This book showcases the unique shape of urban development that took hold during the Roman Empire, beginning in the Mediterranean basin before spreading out across Europe, and offers a fresh perspective on the cities and territories of the Roman West.

With the expansion of Rome came a particular form of social organisation: the Roman city. This book provides a basic introduction to Roman cities, not through the lens of architecture and urbanism, but from a social, legal, cultural, spatial, and functional perspective. It focuses on the Roman civitas - the city and its territory - as the spatial model par excellence of Roman colonialism and expansion. Exploring primarily the cities and territories of the Western Empire, such as the Iberian Peninsula, Gaul, and Britain, González-Villaescusa revives from their ruins those central places that facilitated the circulation of people, goods, and information, forming the large urban network of a unified imperial territory.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Ancient Rome