Senses of the Empire: Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture

ISBN-13: 9781032242255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 248 str.

Eleanor Betts

Opis

Through a series of multisensory case studies centred on people, places, buildings and artefacts, and on specific aspects of human behaviour, this volume develops ground-breaking methods and approaches for sensory studies in Roman archaeology and ancient history. A multisensory approach is taken throughout, with each chapter exploring at least t

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Introduction: Senses of Empire

Eleanor Betts

Chapter 1 The Sounds of the City: from Noise to Silence in Ancient Rome

Ray Laurence

Chapter 2 The Multivalency of Sensory Artefacts in the City of Rome

Eleanor Betts

Chapter 3 Beyond Smell: the Sensory Landscape of the Roman fullonica

Miko Flohr

Chapter 4 Soundscape of the Street: Architectural Acoustics in Ostia

Jeffrey Veitch

Chapter 5 Sensory Archaeologies: a Vindolanda Smellscape

Thomas J. Derrick

Chapter 6 A Sense of Grief: the Role of the Senses in the Performance of Roman Mourning

Valerie M. Hope

Chapter 7 Blood, Fire and Feasting: The Role of Touch and Taste in Graeco-Roman Animal Sacrifice

Candace Weddle

Chapter 8 Babes in Arms? Sensory Dissonance and the Ambiguities of Votive Objects

Emma-Jayne Graham

Chapter 9 All That Glitters: Roman Signet Rings, the Senses and the Self

Ian J. Marshman

Chapter 10 Tuning into the Past: Methodological Perspectives in the Contextualised Study of the Sounds of Roman Antiquity

Alexandre Vincent

Chapter 11 Motion Sensors: Perceiving Movement in Roman Pantomime

Helen Slaney

Chapter 12 Scents of Place and Colours of Smell: Fragranced Entertainment in Ancient Rome

Jo Day

Afterword: Towards a Methodology for Roman Sensory Studies

Eleanor Betts

O autorze

Eleanor Betts is Baron Thyssen Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University. Her research focuses on the multisensory interrelationships of the human body, material culture and archaeological landscapes. Her particular areas of interest are Roman urbanism and religion in Roman and Iron Age Italy (primarily Picenum, modern Marche), with an emphasis on concepts and use of space.