Title & Author:

Roman working lives and urban living / edited by Ardle Mac Mahon and Jennifer Price.

Publication:

Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : David Brown Bk. Co., 2005.

Description:

viii, 224 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
"This volume originated in a conference on 'Roman Working Lives and Urban Living' organised through the Centre for Roman Provincial Archaeology and held in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Durham in July 2001"--Page v.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beating the bounds : ritual and the articulation of urban space in Roman Britain / Simon Esmonde Cleary -- Domestic architecture and social discourse in Roman towns / Dominic Perring -- The commercial landscape of Ostia / Janet DeLaine -- The shops and workshops of Roman Britain / Ardle Mac Mahon -- The taberna counters of Pompeii and Herculaneum / Ardle Mac Mahon -- Re-thinking the social organisation of trade and industry in first century AD Pompeii / Damian Robinson -- Of lumberjacks and brick stamps : working with the Tiber as infrastructure / Shawn Graham -- The shopkeepers and craft-workers of Roman London / Jenny Hall -- Pottery in urban Romano-British life / Jeremy Evans -- Glass-working and glassworkers in cities and towns / Jennifer Price -- How many lives depended on plants? : specialisation and agricultural production at Pompeii / Mariana Ciaraldi -- The role of doctors in the city / Ralph Jackson.

Summary:

Comes out of a conference on 'Roman Working Lives and Urban Living' held at the University of Durham in 2001. The twelve papers presented in this book have been organized into two categories: Urban living and the settings for working lives, and People atwork: owners, and artisans, crafts and professions.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents
Rezension

ISBN:

1842171860 (pbk.)
9781842171868 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns Rome Congresses.
Labor Rome Congresses.
Classical antiquities Congresses.
Travail Rome Congrès.
Antiquités gréco-romaines Congrès.
Antiquities.
Cities and towns.
Classical antiquities.
Labor.
Alltag
Arbeitswelt
Stadt
Ambachten.
Stadscultuur.
Romeinse oudheid.
City and town life Rome Congresses.
Kulturhistoria Romerska riket konferenser.
Stadsliv Romerska riket konferenser.
Arbetare historia Romerska riket konferenser.
Rome Antiquities Congresses.
Rome Antiquités Congrès.
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
Rome History, Local Congresses.
Roman working lives
Urban living

Form/genre:

Kongress Durham 2001.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

MacMahon, Ardle.
Price, J. (A. Jennifer)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243568
Call No.: BIB 173294
Status: Available