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Hingley Richard |
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Titolo |
Hadrian's Wall [[electronic resource] ] : a life / / Richard Hingley |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-71438-8 |
0-19-162613-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (415 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hadrian's Wall (England) History |
Great Britain History Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D |
England, Northern History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""1. A Living Wall""; ""Animating the Wall""; ""Chorography""; ""A composite Roman Wall""; ""2. Hadrian�s Wall""; ""Introduction""; ""Identity and origin""; ""Anatomy""; ""Function""; ""Roman history""; ""PART I: PICTS� WALL""; ""3. Heavenfield: Christian Inspirations""; ""Introduction""; ""Gildas and the �Groans of the Britons�""; ""An eastern comment on the Wall""; ""Bede�s �wretched Britons� and their Walls""; ""The lasting influence of Gildas and Bede""; ""Summary: a Christian monument"" |
""4. Lanercost Priory: The Wall and the English Border""""Introduction""; ""Establishing the northern frontier of England""; ""The night watch""; ""Proposing a civil frontier""; ""Summary: a genealogical frontier""; ""5. Ellenborough (Maryport): Recognizing Roman Civility in the Border Landscape""; ""Introduction""; ""William Camden�s account of the Picts� Wall""; ""Collecting Roman stones""; ""Michael Drayton�s Pictswall""; ""Story and history""; ""Summary: a civil frontier""; ""PART II: THE ROMAN WALL""; ""6. Castlesteads: Reviving Interest in the Wall""; ""Introduction"" |
""Timorous talk of the Picts� Wall""""Emphasizing the Wall""; ""Augustan grandeur and Scottish reactions""; ""John Horsley�s Roman Wall""; ""George Smith at Castlesteads""; ""Summary: reasserting the Wall""; ""7. Newcastle and Carlisle: Reconstructing the Roman Wall""; |
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""Introduction""; ""Rebellion and the fall of Carlisle""; ""Loyal resistance at Newcastle""; ""Re-establishing the Roman frontier""; ""William Stukeley and Princess Augusta""; ""Popularizing the Wall""; ""Summary: rebuilding the Roman Wall""; ""8. The Mithraeum at Borcovicium (Housesteads): Reasons to be Cheerful?"" |
""Introduction""""Reasons to be cheerful?""; ""Reasons to be gloomy?""; ""Reasons to be cheerful, part two""; ""Summary: an imperial Wall""; ""9. Wallington Hall: Native Troops on the Wall""; ""Introduction""; ""Fact and fiction in paint""; ""Native troops upon the Wall""; ""Britons on the Wall""; ""Summary: an inclusive Wall""; ""10. The Clayton Wall: �A New Era in Antiquarian Research�""; ""Introduction""; ""Bruce�s itineraries of the Wall""; ""Recognizing the Wall�s national and international significance""; ""The Clayton Wall""; ""The function of the Wall: an impenetrable fence?"" |
""Religion and urban life along the Wall""""Summary: international fame""; ""PART III: HADRIAN�S WALL""; ""11. The Roman Gate at Hunnum (Halton Chesters): Ethnographic Time""; ""Introduction""; ""The Amateur Antiquary""; ""Rudyard Kipling�s Roman Wall""; ""Kipling�s later writings on the Wall""; ""Representing the Wall""; ""Summary: eddies in time""; ""12. Birdoswald: Scientific Archaeology""; ""Introduction""; ""The Turf Wall, the Vallum, and the internationalization of research""; ""Developing the science of archaeology""; ""The function of the Wall"" |
""Scientific and pre-scientific understandings"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this work, Hingley addresses the post-Roman history of Hadrian's Wall, and considers the ways in which the monument has been imagined, represented, and researched from the sixth century to the internet. |
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