The Buildings of Roman Britain
Title | The Buildings of Roman Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Guy De la Bédoyère |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Architecture, Roman |
ISBN | 9780752419060 |
This book deals thematically with an extensive range of building types, from country villas and urban basilicas to bridges and lighthouses. It covers construction techniques, including interior decoration and features; military buildings, including frontier works, Hadrian's Wall, and the Antonine Wall; public buildings, including market buildings, inns, and monumental arches; sacred sites, including Romano-Celtic temples, Mithraea, and rural shrines; and much more. The appendices deal with orthographic projections, inscriptions, recommended sites, and Romano-British history.
Roman Britain
Title | Roman Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Guy de la Bédoyère |
Publisher | Thames & Hudson |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 2013-11-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0500771839 |
Superbly illustrated throughout, this illuminating account of Britain as a Roman province includes dramatic aerial views of Roman remains, reconstruction drawings and images of Roman villas, mosaics, coins, pottery and sculpture. The text has been updated to incorporate the latest research and recent discoveries, including the largest Roman coin hoard ever found in Britain, the thirty decapitated skeletons found in York and the magnificent Crosby Garrett parade helmet. Guy de la Bédoyère is one of the public faces of Romano-British history and archaeology through his many appearances on several television programmes and is the author of numerous books on the period.
Romano-British Buildings and Earthworks
Title | Romano-British Buildings and Earthworks PDF eBook |
Author | John Ward |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Architecture in Roman Britain
Title | Architecture in Roman Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Guy de la Bedoyere |
Publisher | Shire Publications |
Pages | 72 |
Release | 2008-03-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780747805304 |
The Roman period was Britain's first great architectural age, though this is sometimes difficult to appreciate from the ruinous state of the sites that survive. This book looks at how in a few years Britain witnessed the design and erection of an astonishing range of buildings, from mundane and functional houses through to exotic temples and ambitious civil engineering projects. Some of Britain's Roman architects turn out to have been innovators. Reconstruction drawings and paintings by the author bring these vanished buildings back to life and recreate a lost world of forts, basilicas, theatres, baths, arches, classical temples, villas and lighthouses.
Under Another Sky
Title | Under Another Sky PDF eBook |
Author | Charlotte Higgins |
Publisher | Abrams |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2015-08-04 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1468312367 |
The author and classics scholar shares “a delightful, deeply informed recounting of her journeys across Britain in search of its ancient Roman past” (Kirkus, starred review). What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Sometimes on foot, sometimes in a magnificent, if not entirely reliable, VW camper van, Charlotte Higgins sets out to explore the ancient monuments of Roman Britain. She explores the land that was once Rome’s northernmost territory and how it has changed since the years after the empire fell. Under Another Sky invites readers to see the British landscape, and British history, in an entirely fresh way: as indelibly marked by how the Romans first imagined and wrote, these strange and exotic islands, perched on the edge of the known world, into existence. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize
The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE
Title | The Material Fall of Roman Britain, 300-525 CE PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Fleming |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2021-06-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812252446 |
"An examination of the transformations in lowland Britain's material culture over the course of the long fifth century CE during the late Roman regime and its end"--
The Ruin of Roman Britain
Title | The Ruin of Roman Britain PDF eBook |
Author | James Gerrard |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2013-10-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107038634 |
This book employs new archaeological and historical evidence to explain how and why Roman Britain became Anglo-Saxon England.