Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire

ISBN-13: 9780367900779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 460 str.

Pieter Houten

Opis

The principal aims of the book Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire are to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of the urban systems of the Iberian Peninsula during the Early Empire and to explain why these systems looked the way they did.

Spis treści

List of tables;  Acknowledgements;  List of abbreviations;  1. The ancient city on the Iberian Peninsula;  2. The origins of urbanisation on the Iberian Peninsula;  3. Self-governing civitates in the Early Empire;  4. Secondary agglomerations and urban functions;  5. Monuments for urban lifestyle;  6. Quantifying the urban network;  Appendix I: self-governing cities alphabetically;  Appendix II: self-governing communities with evidence table;  Bibliography;  Index

O autorze

Pieter Houten is a research fellow within the ERC-project 'LatinNow: Latinization of the North-Western Provinces' at the University of Nottingham, UK, and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at the University of Oxford, UK. He wrote his PhD thesis Civitates Hispaniae within the ERC-funded project ‘An Empire of 2,000 Cities’ at Leiden University, Netherlands. His research focuses on urbanisation and Latinisation on the Iberian Peninsula in the Roman period.