Hadrian's Wall [[electronic resource] ] : a life / / Richard Hingley |
Autore | Hingley Richard |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (415 p.) |
Disciplina | 936.2/881 |
ISBN |
1-283-71438-8
0-19-162613-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""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""; ""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"" |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996210781303316 |
Hingley Richard | ||
Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
|
Hadrian's Wall and the end of empire : the Roman frontier in the 4th and 5th centuries / / Rob Collins |
Autore | Collins Rob <1977-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina | 936.2/881 |
Collana | Routledge studies in archaeology |
Soggetto topico |
Romans - Great Britain
Fortification, Roman - England |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-58665-7
9786613899101 0-203-11455-8 1-136-29142-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Hadrian's Wall and the frontier from construction to collapse -- "Per lineam valli:" the limitanei of the northern frontier -- Interpreting military transformation -- Britons and barbarians -- Frontiers far and wide -- The frontier at the end of empire: decline, collapse, or transformation? -- Appendix 1: Roman forts in northern Britain: key sites and references -- Appendix 2: Pollen sites in the frontier -- Appendix 3: Reconstructing the final frontier. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462401203321 |
Collins Rob <1977-, > | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Hadrian's Wall and the end of empire : the Roman frontier in the 4th and 5th centuries / / Rob Collins |
Autore | Collins Rob <1977-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina | 936.2/881 |
Collana | Routledge studies in archaeology |
Soggetto topico |
Romans - Great Britain
Fortification, Roman - England |
ISBN |
1-136-29141-5
1-283-58665-7 9786613899101 0-203-11455-8 1-136-29142-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Hadrian's Wall and the frontier from construction to collapse -- "Per lineam valli:" the limitanei of the northern frontier -- Interpreting military transformation -- Britons and barbarians -- Frontiers far and wide -- The frontier at the end of empire: decline, collapse, or transformation? -- Appendix 1: Roman forts in northern Britain: key sites and references -- Appendix 2: Pollen sites in the frontier -- Appendix 3: Reconstructing the final frontier. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785794103321 |
Collins Rob <1977-, > | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Hadrian's Wall and the end of empire : the Roman frontier in the 4th and 5th centuries / / Rob Collins |
Autore | Collins Rob <1977-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina | 936.2/881 |
Collana | Routledge studies in archaeology |
Soggetto topico |
Romans - Great Britain
Fortification, Roman - England |
ISBN |
1-136-29141-5
1-283-58665-7 9786613899101 0-203-11455-8 1-136-29142-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Hadrian's Wall and the frontier from construction to collapse -- "Per lineam valli:" the limitanei of the northern frontier -- Interpreting military transformation -- Britons and barbarians -- Frontiers far and wide -- The frontier at the end of empire: decline, collapse, or transformation? -- Appendix 1: Roman forts in northern Britain: key sites and references -- Appendix 2: Pollen sites in the frontier -- Appendix 3: Reconstructing the final frontier. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818822903321 |
Collins Rob <1977-, > | ||
New York, : Routledge, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Image to interpretation [[electronic resource] ] : an intelligent system to aid historians in reading the Vindolanda texts / / Melissa M. Terras ; with a foreword by Alan K. Bowman and Michael Brady |
Autore | Terras Melissa M |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina | 936.2/881 |
Altri autori (Persone) | RobertsonPaul <1956-> |
Collana | Oxford studies in ancient documents |
Soggetto topico |
Inscriptions, Latin - England - Chesterholme
Wooden tablets - England - Chesterholme Paleography - Data processing Artificial intelligence - Research Connectionism Minimum description length (Information theory) Image analysis |
ISBN |
1-280-84569-4
9786610845699 0-19-152544-8 1-4356-2116-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Tables; 1. Introduction; I: Knowledge Elicitation and the Papyrologist; II: Image to Interpretation; Appendix A. Using a Stochastic MDL Architecture to Read the Vindolanda Texts; Appendix B. Annotation; Appendix C. Vindolanda Letter Forms Corpus; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996217845303316 |
Terras Melissa M | ||
Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
|
Life and letters on the Roman frontier : Vindolanda and its people / / Alan K. Bowman |
Autore | Bowman Alan K. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (169 p.) |
Disciplina | 936.2/881 |
Soggetto topico |
Frontier and pioneer life - England - Chesterholme
Excavations (Archaeology) - England - Chesterholme Fortification, Roman - England - Chesterholme Inscriptions, Latin - England - Chesterholme Wooden tablets - England - Chesterholme Romans - England - Chesterholme Tablets (Paleography) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-429-23760-X
0-203-82369-9 1-283-96549-6 1-136-77393-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Life and Letterson the Roman frontier vindolanda and its People; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Writing-tablets; 3. Strategies of Occupation; 4. The Roman Army; 5. Officers and Men, and Women; 6. Social and Economic Life on the Frontier; 7. Letters and Literacy; Appendix I: Technical Terminology; Appendix II: The Texts; Bibliography; The Plates; Index; Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463429803321 |
Bowman Alan K. | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Life and letters on the Roman frontier : Vindolanda and its people / / Alan K. Bowman |
Autore | Bowman Alan K. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 167 Seiten : Illustrationen + Tafeln I-VIII |
Disciplina | 936.2/881 |
Soggetto topico |
Frontier and pioneer life - England - Chesterholme
Excavations (Archaeology) - England - Chesterholme Fortification, Roman - England - Chesterholme Inscriptions, Latin - England - Chesterholme Wooden tablets - England - Chesterholme Romans - England - Chesterholme Tablets (Paleography) Römerzeit Schriftlichkeit Schreibtafel |
ISBN |
9780415920254
0-429-23760-X 0-203-82369-9 1-283-96549-6 1-136-77393-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Life and Letterson the Roman frontier vindolanda and its People; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Writing-tablets; 3. Strategies of Occupation; 4. The Roman Army; 5. Officers and Men, and Women; 6. Social and Economic Life on the Frontier; 7. Letters and Literacy; Appendix I: Technical Terminology; Appendix II: The Texts; Bibliography; The Plates; Index; Acknowledgments |
Altri titoli varianti |
Roman Frontier
Vindolanda and its people |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786182003321 |
Bowman Alan K. | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Life and letters on the Roman frontier : Vindolanda and its people / / Alan K. Bowman |
Autore | Bowman Alan K. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 167 Seiten : Illustrationen + Tafeln I-VIII |
Disciplina | 936.2/881 |
Soggetto topico |
Frontier and pioneer life - England - Chesterholme
Excavations (Archaeology) - England - Chesterholme Fortification, Roman - England - Chesterholme Inscriptions, Latin - England - Chesterholme Wooden tablets - England - Chesterholme Romans - England - Chesterholme Tablets (Paleography) Römerzeit Schriftlichkeit Schreibtafel |
ISBN |
9780415920254
0-429-23760-X 0-203-82369-9 1-283-96549-6 1-136-77393-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Life and Letterson the Roman frontier vindolanda and its People; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Writing-tablets; 3. Strategies of Occupation; 4. The Roman Army; 5. Officers and Men, and Women; 6. Social and Economic Life on the Frontier; 7. Letters and Literacy; Appendix I: Technical Terminology; Appendix II: The Texts; Bibliography; The Plates; Index; Acknowledgments |
Altri titoli varianti |
Roman Frontier
Vindolanda and its people |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808034203321 |
Bowman Alan K. | ||
New York, : Routledge, 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|