J. T. Smith

Roman Villas (eBook, ePUB)

A Study in Social Structure

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Roman Villas explores the social structures of the Roman world by analysing the plans of buildings of all sizes from slightly Romanized farms to palaces. The ways in which the rooms are grouped together; how they intercommunicate; and the ways in which individual rooms and the house are approached, reveal various social patterns, which question traditional ideas about the Roman family and household. J. T. Smith argues that virtually all houses were occupied by groups of varying composition, challenging the received wisdom that they were single family houses whose size reflected only the owner's wealth and number of servants.
Roman Villas provides a meticulously documented and scholarly examination of the relationship between the living quarters of the Roman and their social and economic development which introduces a new area in Roman studies and a corpus of material for further analysis. The inclusion of almost 500 ground plans, drawn to a uniform scale, allows the reader to compare the similarities and differences between house structure as well as effectively illustrating the arguments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134705351
• Artikelnr.: 38445739

Autorenporträt

John Smith is an Honorary Research Fellow at Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He was formerly the Head of Architecture at The Royal commission on The Historical Monuments of England. He is the author of numerous articles on Roman villas in learned journals.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Author's Preface (Includes Acknowledgements)
Editorial notes: notes on drawings Part 1: 1. Aims and Scope of the Book
2. Methods and Assumptions
Part 2: Types of Plan: 3. Hall Houses
4. Row-Type Houses
5. Developed Forms of Row-House
6. Developed Forms of Hall-House
7. Problematic House-Types
8. The Porticus-with-Pavilions: (i) Pavilions
9. The Porticus-with-Pavilions: (ii): Porticuses
10. The Elements and Forms of Villa Complexes
11. Palaces
Peristyle Houses and Luxury Villas
12. The Villas of South-East Europe
Part 3: The Villa System in Operation: Modes of Change: 13. The Late Pre-Roman Iron Age Background
14. Modes of Romanisation
15. Patterns of Villa Development
16. A Model of Development
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index of Subjects
Index of Persons and Places.