This paper critically examines the long-standing view that Roman rural organization differed fundamentally from that of the other polities of central-southern Italy, and that this difference somehow explains Roman imperial success. First, the intellectual history of this paradigm is examined, focusing especially on 19th century socio-evolutionary theory and on the role of landscape archaeology in the period following WWII. Then, recent archaeological studies on settlement dynamics and land division practices in ancient Italy are discussed. In light of these results, this paper proposes an alternative understanding of Roman-Italic rural development and land division practices and as such also questions the ancient topos which associates Roma...
Studies like Hannibal’s Legacy by Arnold Toynbee (1965) and Italian Manpower by Peter A. Brunt (1971...
SUMMARY: This paper suggests some general approaches and raises some problems in studying the impact...
This thesis reconsiders the cultural and economic relevance of landownership for the Roman republica...
This paper critically examines the long-standing view that Roman rural organization differed fundame...
Roman rural landscapes have long been associated with villas, that generally were regarded as its ce...
The Roman villa was a defining element of the Roman world and its appearance and spread, both in va...
This paper is intended as a survey of the major points in the debate over land use in Roman Italy in...
My objective in this article is to analyze the development of the rural archeology of Roman Italy. T...
This paper studies rural populations in the Roman frontier province of Germania inferior, employing ...
Since the 1960s, excavations, survey and environmental studies have generated a wealth of data on th...
In this dissertation, I examine the process of rural infill in central Italy– a pattern of regional ...
Rural Italy during the Roman Period. J. -P. Vallat. The study of rural Italy during the Roman peri...
This paper looks at the agrarian economy of Italy in the middle Republican period, specifically betw...
Settlements and the forms of land management control are issues on which Chris and I have often exc...
Ancient Towns and the Organisation of Rural Space : Villa, Town and Village The author seeks to ...
Studies like Hannibal’s Legacy by Arnold Toynbee (1965) and Italian Manpower by Peter A. Brunt (1971...
SUMMARY: This paper suggests some general approaches and raises some problems in studying the impact...
This thesis reconsiders the cultural and economic relevance of landownership for the Roman republica...
This paper critically examines the long-standing view that Roman rural organization differed fundame...
Roman rural landscapes have long been associated with villas, that generally were regarded as its ce...
The Roman villa was a defining element of the Roman world and its appearance and spread, both in va...
This paper is intended as a survey of the major points in the debate over land use in Roman Italy in...
My objective in this article is to analyze the development of the rural archeology of Roman Italy. T...
This paper studies rural populations in the Roman frontier province of Germania inferior, employing ...
Since the 1960s, excavations, survey and environmental studies have generated a wealth of data on th...
In this dissertation, I examine the process of rural infill in central Italy– a pattern of regional ...
Rural Italy during the Roman Period. J. -P. Vallat. The study of rural Italy during the Roman peri...
This paper looks at the agrarian economy of Italy in the middle Republican period, specifically betw...
Settlements and the forms of land management control are issues on which Chris and I have often exc...
Ancient Towns and the Organisation of Rural Space : Villa, Town and Village The author seeks to ...
Studies like Hannibal’s Legacy by Arnold Toynbee (1965) and Italian Manpower by Peter A. Brunt (1971...
SUMMARY: This paper suggests some general approaches and raises some problems in studying the impact...
This thesis reconsiders the cultural and economic relevance of landownership for the Roman republica...