Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire: 4th Century BC to the 3rd Century AD

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Ricardo González-Villaescusa

Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire

4th Century BC to the 3rd Century AD

Ricardo González-Villaescusa

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Routledge
03 June 2024

History of architecture; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Classical Greek & Roman archaeology; Human geography

This book showcases the unique shape of urban development that took hold during the Roman Empire, beginning in the Mediterranean basin before spreading out across Europe, and offers a fresh perspective on the cities and territories of the Roman West.

With the expansion of Rome came a particular form of social organisation: the Roman city. This book provides a basic introduction to Roman cities, not through the lens of architecture and urbanism, but from a social, legal, cultural, spatial, and functional perspective. It focuses on the Roman civitas – the city and its territory – as the spatial model par excellence of Roman colonialism and expansion. Exploring primarily the cities and territories of the Western Empire, such as the Iberian Peninsula, Gaul, and Britain, González-Villaescusa revives from their ruins those central places that facilitated the circulation of people, goods, and information, forming the large urban network of a unified imperial territory.

Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire: 4th Century BC to the 3rd Century AD is suitable for school and university students, as well as the general reader interested in the subject of Roman cities in the Western Empire.

By: Ricardo González-Villaescusa
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781032586267
ISBN 10: 1032586265
Pages: 102
Publication Date: 03 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , General/trade , Primary , Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Ricardo González-Villaescusa is a former member of the School of Higher Hispanic Studies at Casa de Velázquez; he worked as a full professor at the universities of Reims – Champagne Ardenne, and Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France). Since 2019, he has been Professor of Archaeology in the Gaul and North-West Europe and member of UMR 7041 ArScAn – Archaeology and Sciences for Antiquity.