How Things Make History : The Roman Empire and its terra sigillata Pottery

• Tác giả: Astrid van Oyen
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-9462980549
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 938 Greece to323
• Thông tin xuất bản: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (174 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 217703
• Chủ đề: 1. Classical Greek & Roman archaeology

Tóm tắt

Bright red terra sigillata pots dating to the first three centuries CE can be found throughout the Western Roman provinces. The pots' widespread distribution and recognisability make them key evidence in the effort to reconstruct the Roman Empire's economy and society. Drawing on recent ideas in material culture, this book asks a radically new question: what was it about the pots themselves that allowed them to travel so widely and be integrated so quickly into a range of contexts and practices? To answer this question, Van Oyen offers a fresh analysis in which objects are no longer passive props, but rather they actively shape historical trajectories.