Pieter Houten (UK University of Nottingham)

Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal

Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Roman Space and Urbanism
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 156mm x 234mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9780367708672
• ISBN-10: 0367708671
• Artikelnr.: 69791059

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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