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Book SynopsisIn the Roman world, landscapes became legal and institutional constructions, being the core of social, political, religious, and economic life. The Romans developed ambitious urban transformations, seeking to equate civic monumentality and legal status. The built environment becomes the axis of the legal, administrative, sacred, and economic system and the main element of dissemination of imperial ideology. This volume follows the modern trend of a multifaceted, composite, multi-layered Roman world, but at the same time reduces its complexity. It views ‘Roman’ not only in the sense of power politics, but also in a cultural context. It highlights ‘landscapes’ and puts into the shadow important administrative and legal structures, i.e., individuals viz. local and imperial members of the elites living in cities, which ran the Roman world.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Table Notes on Editors and Contributors 1 Introduction Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz and Anthony Álvarez Melero Part 1: Integration 2 Imperial Ideology and the Making of Baetican Epigraphic Landscapes Javier Herrera Rando 3 Gone with the Law: The Survival of Latin Onomastics in a Peregrinorum Hispania during the Republic Cristina de la Escosura Balbás 4 Quattuorviratus and Latium in Hispania David Espinosa Espinosa Part 2: Acculturation 5 Collective Organisation of Matrons in Monarchic and Republican Rome and Its Visibility in Public Spaces Daniel León Ardoy 6 The Role of Women in Shaping the Funerary Landscape of Ostia and Portus Francisco Cidoncha-Redondo 7 Public and Private Employment of Marmora in Italica: A Symbol of Power and Romanness Daniel Becerra Fernández 8 Damnosa Hereditas? Italica and the Imperial Evergetism: An Approach to the Urban Vitality of the Colony in the Post-Hadrian Period (AD 138–211) Diego Romero Vera 9 Home, Honour, Hispania: The Case of L. Minicius Natalis Quadronius Verus Anna-Maria Wilskman Part 3: Interconnectedness 10 Between Mauretania and Numidia Provincial Boundaries, Land Connections and Imperial Administration in North Africa (1st–4th Centuries AD) Sergio España-Chamorro 11 Blurred Boundaries and Terrestrial Connections between Baetica and Tarraconensis The Territorium of Acci and the Influence of the Landscape Antonio López García General Bibliography Index
