Between Text and Territory. Survey and Excavations in the Terra of San Vincenzo al Volturno, edited by Kim Bowes, Karen Francis and Richard Hodges |
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with contributions by William Bowden, Kim Bowes, Karen Francis, Oliver Gilkes, Peter Hayes, Richard Hodges, John Mitchell, Matthew Moran and John Patterson; Frederick Baker, Christopher Birks, Edward Bispham, Andrea Burgess, Antonia Castellani, Gill Clark, Stefano Coccia, Lorenzo Costantini, John Giorgi, Samuel D. Gruber, Philip Kibberd, Sam Moorhead, Helen Patterson, Paul Roberts, Judith Stevenson, Sophie Tremlett and Chris Wickham The San Vincenzo Project, focused upon the Benedictine monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno, in the modern regione of Molise, was launched in 1980. The primary aims were to develop, in collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archeologica del Molise, the archaeological potential of the well-known ninth-century painted crypt of San Lorenzo; to define the general character of the early medieval monastery of which the crypt formed only a minor part; and, through a combination of survey and small-scale excavations within the territory of San Vincenzo, to define the relationship between the early medieval monastery and its dependent communities. This volume summarizes the archaeology of the territory, placing emphasis upon the long settlement history of which San Vincenzo al Volturno was a part, as well as the dependent communities of the Benedictine monastery identified during the fieldwork. After an introduction to the project and the historical background, Chapter Two provides an overview of the 1980–1 field survey, as well as the investigations of the castelli in the upper Volturno valley and the survey and excavations on Monte Mare. Chapters Three–Five describe the principal results from the extensive excavations on the east bank of the river Volturno, including the Samnite cemetery, the Samnite and Republican settlement, the early medieval industrial complex and borgo, and the twelfth-century monastery. Reports on the excavations of the hilltop sites of Colle Castellano and Colle Sant’Angelo form Chapters Six and Seven. Chapter Eight is a re-evaluation of the 1982 excavations of the village of Vacchereccia. An assessment of the history of the monastery’s investment in Capua, where the monks resided in exile following the sack of 881, is given in Chapter Nine. Chapters Ten–Twelve re-examine the settlement history in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 16 ISBN 978-0-904152-48-0; xiv, 356 pages, including 195 black and white illustrations; paperback; 21 x 28 cm; 2006 Price: £49.50; special price to Subscribers £25.00 + p&p |
Portus. An Archaeological Survey of the Port of Imperial Rome, by Simon Keay, Martin Millett, Lidia Paroli and Kristian Strutt |
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with contributions from Antonia Arnoldus-Huyzendveld, Alessandra Bousquet, Will Clarke, Letizia Ceccarelli, Franca Del Vecchio, Fabrizio Felici, Sergio Fontana, Shawn Graham, Paul Johnson, Stephen Kay, Anna Lucia Lionetti, Mauro Maiorano, Cristiana Mele, Cinzia Morelli, Helen Patterson, Julia Robinson, Isabel Rodà, Timothy Sly, Claudia Valeri, Patrizia A. Verduchi, Christopher Whitton, Sabrina Zampini and Fausto Zevi In AD 42 the Emperor Claudius initiated work on the construction of a new artificial harbour a short distance to the north of the mouth of the river Tiber. The harbour facilities were enlarged at the instigation of the Emperor Trajan at the beginning of the second century AD, and Portus remained the principal port for the City of Rome into the Byzantine period. The surviving archaeological remains and comments by ancient sources make it clear that Portus lay at the heart of Rome’s maritime façade. As well as being a key Mediterranean centre for passengers and for the loading, unloading, transshipment and storage of products from across the Empire, it was also designed to make an ideological statement about the supremacy of Rome in the world. The project that forms the main subject of this book was designed to use non-destructive techniques of topographic and geophysical survey (including magnetometry and resistivity) in combination with systematic surface collection and analysis of aerial photographs and the geomorphology of the coastline to provide a new understanding of the plan of Portus. The results challenge some of the accepted interpretations and put forward new readings of the evidence, thus deepening knowledge of this key site and opening up new perspectives and avenues for research on the functional, economic and political relations between Rome and its port within the context of the imperial organization of the Mediterranean. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 15 |
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Roman Bodies. Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century,
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The seventeen wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays explore dramatic changes in Western conceptions of the body. Divided into three sections, ‘Empire’, ‘Church’ and ‘Religion and science’, topics discussed include gender, sexuality, social and political identity, health and sickness, the body in death and after, and corporeal aesthetics. [1] The body of Rome: introduction, Maria Wyke and Andrew Hopkins; [2] Archetypally Roman? Representing Seneca’s ageing body, Catharine Edwards; [3] Circumcision, de-circumcision and self-image: Celsus’s ‘operation on the penis’, Ralph Jackson; [4] A Roman perspective on circumcision, Pierre Cordier; [5] In the foreskin of your flesh’: the pure male body in late antiquity, Gillian Clark; [6] Headhunters of the Roman army, Nic Fields; [7] Execution in effigy: severed heads and decapitated statues in Imperial Rome, Eric R. Varner; [8] Disabled bodies: the (mis)representation of the lame in antiquity and their reappearance in early Christian and medieval art, Livio Pestilli; [9]Truth, perception and the pagan body in the Roman martyr narratives, Kristina Sessa; [10] The paradoxical body of Saint Agnes, Lucy Grig; [11] The relic translations of Paschal I: transforming city and cult, Caroline Goodson; [12] Majesty and mortality: attitudes towards the corpse in papal funeral ceremonies, Minou Schraven; [13] A theatre of cruelty and forgiveness: dissection, institutions and the moral discourse of anatomy in sixteenth-century Rome, Andrea Carlino; [14] Not torments, but delights: Antonio Gallonio’s Trattato de gli instrumenti di martirio of 1591 and its illustrations, Opher Mansour; [15] Ancient bodies and contested identities in the English College martyrdom cycle, Rome, Richard L. Williams; [16] Secrets of the heart: the role of saintly bodies in the medical discourse of Counter-Reformation Rome, Catrien Santing; [17] Contesting the Sacred Heart of Jesus in late eighteenth-century Rome, Jon L. Seydl. ISBN 0 904152 44 8; x, 266 pages, including 74 black and white illustrations; paperback; 2005. |
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Archives & Excavations
Essays on the History of Archaeological Excavations in Rome and Southern Italy from the Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century,
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Arising from two workshops held at the School and in Oxford , this volume aims to stimulate a new approach to the history of excavation by drawing attention to a vast and important area of research that has been neglected for almost a century. Preface, Paolo Liverani, Martin Kemp and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill ; [1] Introduction, Ilaria Bignamini ; [2] Rescue archaeology in the Renaissance, Ian Campbell ; [3] Research in the Roman catacombs by the Louvain antiquarian Philips van Winghe, Cornelis Schuddeboom ; [4] Archaeologies, antiquaries and the memorie of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Rome, Amanda Claridge ; [5] Excavations, collectors and scholars in seventeenth-century Rome , Ingo Herklotz ; [6] British excavations in the Papal States during the eighteenth century: written and visual sources, Ilaria Bignamini ; [7] A painter in search of a poet: Allan Ramsay and Horace's Villa, 1755-84, Iain Gordon Brown ; [8] Charles Townley's collection of drawings and papers: a source for eighteenth-century excavations, the market and collections, Brian F. Cook ; [9] How antique is antique? The restoration of mosaics for the Vatican Museums, Klaus E. Werner ; [10] Towns and tombs: three-dimensional documentation of archaeological sites in the Kingdom of Naples in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Valentin Kockel ; [11] Giacomo Boni's excavations in the Roman Forum as seen in the photographs of Thomas Ashby, Rita Turchetti ; [12] 'Excavations' in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 1885-1904: analysis of the pre-existing medieval remains under the Palazzo Le Roy, Susanna Le Pera Buranelli ; [13] Discoveries at the Scala Santa: the excavations of 1852-4, Paolo Liverani ; [14] Records of the excavations of 1836 in the Sabine necropolis of Poggio Sommavilla and of the activities of Melchiade Fossati, Giorgio Filippi ; [15] The discovery of the Etruscans in the early nineteenth century: some archival documents, Ronald T. Ridley ; [16] Excavations in Etruria in the 1880s: the case of Veii, Paolo Liverani . Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 14 |
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Bridging the Tiber. Approaches to Regional Archaeology in the Middle Tiber Valley
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Arising from a series of workshops held at the School as part of the Tiber Valley Project, this volume includes papers not just on the core BSR elements of this exciting project, but papers from British and Italian collaborators. The twenty chapters are grouped into three main sections, reflecting the content of the original workshops: ‘Approaches to rural settlement’, ‘Urbanism’ and ‘Production, exchange and exchange networks’. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 13 |
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The Franciscans and Art Patronage in Late Medieval Italy,
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This volume, the first in the joint art history series with Cambridge University Press, examines how church decoration developed between 1250 and 1400, focusing on three important churches — San Fermo Maggiore in Verona, San Lorenzo in Vicenza and Sant’Antonio in Padua —, looking at the contribution of local Franciscan friars as well as lay patrons. ISBN 0 521 82158 4; 256 pages, including 74 illustrations; hardback; 2004. |
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Naples, from Roman Town to City-State: an Archaeological Perspective
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Naples maintained a certain pre-eminence in the mediterranean world throughout late antiquity and the Dark Ages. The city was thus able to participate in the commercial revolution of the Middle Ages, alongside towns such as Genoa and Venice, and it became the centre respectively of Angevin, Arragonese and eventually Bourbon power in Italy. Prior to the 1980s, our understanding of the development and character of Naples was based upon historical sources; however, the 1980s saw a flurry of archaeological activity, revealing tantalizing snapshots of urban development, which are described and assessed in this volume. The author concentrates upon certain key themes: social transformation (including population, health and diet); urban transformation (including harbour works; streets; public buildings; water supply; houses; cemeteries); the role of the Church (including the building of churches; monasteries and convents); the territory of Naples; and the economy (including agrarian production and animal husbandry; ceramics and coinage). Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 12 |
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Lutyens Abroad
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With contributions by Louise Campbell, David Crellin, Emmanuel Ducamp, Roderick Gradidge, Allan Greenberg, Hermione Hobhouse, Andrew Hopkins, Robert Grant Irving, Mervyn Miller, John Premble, Alan Powers, Margaret Richardson, Jane Ridley, Timothy M. Rohan and Gavin Stamp Arising from a conference held at the School, Lutyens Abroad offers the first serious examination of Sir Edwin Lutyens's hugely significant work beyond Great Britain. With the exception of New Delhi, far less attention has been paid to Lutyens's work abroad than to this work at home, although it is arguable that his finest creations, works of transcendent humanity and originality within the Western tradition, are to be found along the former battlefields of the Western Front and the hot plains of India. ISBN 0 904152 37 5; 246 pages, including 102 illustrations; paperback: |
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The British School at Rome : One Hundred Years
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With contributions by Jacopo Benci, Sarah Court, Gill Clark, Alistair Crawford, Caroline Egerton, Stephen Farthing, Andrew Hopkins, Sarah Hyslop, Anthony Majanlahti, Helen Patterson, Cristiana Perrella, Geoffrey Rickman, Valerie Scott, Jane Thompson, Jo Wallace-Hadrill, Katherine Wallis The British School at Rome celebrates its first hundred years of activity with this account, richly illustrated with over 270 images drawn from its archives. The main narrative, by the current Director, examines the way the School has from the start responded to the opportunities offered by Rome in bringing together archaeologists and historians with artists, architects and art historians in a fruitful marriage of interests. It underlines both the continuities that link the vision of Thomas Ashby to the present, and the transformations by which the institution has adapted itself to the changing current of European history. Chapters on the artist scholars by two artists closely linked with the School, Alistair Crawford and Stephen Farthing, look at the diverse responses to the opportunities offered by living in Rome. This attractive publication will be of interest to all concerned with Britain's cultural engagement with Italy, in the fine arts, archaeology, and general. ISBN 0 904152 35 9; 228 pages, including 275 colour and black and white illustrations; hardback: published November 2001 |
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The Impact of Italy: the Grand Tour and Beyond
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With contributions by Ilaria Bignamini, John Bowen, Chloe Chard, Jeffrey Collins, Clare Hornsby, Michael Liversidge, Michael McCarthy, Frank Salmon, Lori-Ann Touchette and David Watkin The studies offered in this collection explore aspects of the cultural, social and artistic phenomenon known as the Grand Tour, both at and beyond its recognized highpoint in the eighteenth century. Scholars from a variety of disciplines — art history, classics, architectural history, literature and cultural history — here present the context of the Tour, examine specific cases of travellers to Italy and look at some of the events and institutions to which the Grand Tour gave birth. ISBN 0 904152 32 4; 272 pages, including 53 black and white illustrations; hardback: published December 2000. |
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Visions of Rome: Thomas Ashby, Archaeologist
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Thomas Ashby, an avid photographer and dedicated walker, belonged to the transition between Victorian antiquarianism and twentieth-century scientific archaeology. This volume charts his educational and archaeological background, his first acquaintance with Rome and the Roman Campagna, his time at the British School at Rome (as the School's first Scholar and third Director (1906 – 25)) and his experiences with the First British Red Cross Ambulance Unit during the First World War. It describes Ashby's academic achievements, not only as an archaeologist but also as an art historian. ISBN 0 904152 34 0; 152 pages, including 41 black and white illustrations; hardback: published December 2000. |
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Immagini dal passato. La Sardegna archeologica di fine Ottocento nelle fotografie inedite del padre domenicano inglese Peter Paul Mackey.
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The volume is the fifth in a series of publications which aims to present unpublished material, particularly from the photographic collections housed in the Archive of the British School to a wide audience. The photographs published in this catalogue were taken by Rev. Peter Paul Mackey on his visits to Sardinia in 1898 and 1899: a rare opportunity to visit the island's monuments, architecture and landscapes as they presented themselves at the end of 19 th century that will hopefully interest not only historians and archaeologists but also historians of photography and the informed tourist as well as the residents of Sardinia today, a part of whose cultural heritage can be found in these images. ISBN 887138204-8; 235 pages, including 126 black and white illustrations and 50 coloured; paperback, published October 2000 |
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Falerii Novi: a New Survey of the Walled Area
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This publication presents the results of Southampton University's survey of the town of Falerii Novi in Lazio. This Roman town is the first of a series to be examined as part of Southampton's contribution to the British School at Rome's broader Tiber Valley Project. Reprinted from Papers of the British School at Rome 68 (2000). |
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Excavations at the Mola di Monte Gelato: A Roman and Medieval Settlement in South Etruria
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with L. Allason-Jones, P. Arthur, D.M. Bailey, F. Fedeli Bernardini, A. Claridge, J. Conheeney, J. DeLaine, C.M. Gilliver, O. Gilkes, J. Giorgi, R.P.J. Jackson, F. Marazzi, J. Osborne, H. Patterson, J. Price, P. Roberts, D. Wilkinson and others The Mola di Monte Gelato lies in the valley of the river Treia, about 34 km north of Rome. The excavations between 1986 and 1990 provided evidence for use of the site from the early Imperial period to the Middle Ages and beyond. ISBN 0 904152 31 6; 456 pages, including 132 line illustrations and 124 black and white photographs; paperback (Archaeological Monograph 11); 1997. Price £55.00. |
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'Roman Ostia' Revisited
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This volume, published in collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia, presents the results of a conference in memory of Russell Meiggs. Meiggs dedicated the first edition of Roman Ostia to the sodales ostienses. The scholars who have worked on Ostia since the publication of his magnum opus intend to repay this dedication with the work presented here. The papers, which are organized into four sections, take up some of the great themes associated with Ostia: from pottery to the building of the city, to the problems concerning the economic infrastructure and town-planning. ISBN 0 904152 29 4; 308 pages, including 54 line illustrations and 66 black and white photographs; hardback; 1996. Price £35.00. |
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