Outputs (390)

The Languages and Epigraphies of Iron Age and Roman Gaul (2024)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A. (2024). The Languages and Epigraphies of Iron Age and Roman Gaul. In A. Mullen, & A. Willi (Eds.), Latinization, Local Languages and Literacies in the Roman West (151-204). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191994760.003.0005

To grasp the complexity of the languages and epigraphies of Gaul, this chapter takes an interdisciplinary and wide chronological perspective. The earliest epigraphic texts (sixth to second centuries bce) are in Greek, Iberian, Etruscan, and, later, L... Read More about The Languages and Epigraphies of Iron Age and Roman Gaul.

Didactic (and) Epic (2024)
Book Chapter
Kneebone, E. (2024). Didactic (and) Epic. In E. Greensmith (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic (58-78). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086585.005

This chapter examines the interplay and boundaries between ancient heroic and didactic epic poetry, particularly in the Hellenistic and imperial periods, treating didactic poets such as Aratus, Nicander, Dionysius the Periegete, Oppian, ps.-Oppian, a... Read More about Didactic (and) Epic.

In Praise of the Fly (2024)
Book Chapter
Kneebone, E. (2024). In Praise of the Fly. In S. Goldhill (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Lucian (163-185). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009170406.008

Lucian’s 'In Praise of the Fly' offers a delightfully wry encomium of the humble house fly. While the speech engages wittily with sophistic traditions by praising this troublesome insect, it also raises important questions about social marginality an... Read More about In Praise of the Fly.

Settlements and Urbanisation (2024)
Book Chapter
Loveluck, C. (in press). Settlements and Urbanisation. In F. Edmonds, & R. Naismith (Eds.), New Cambridge History of Britain, Volume 1: Early Medieval Britain, c. 410-1100. Cambridge University Press

River and Society in Northern Italy: The Po Valley, 500-1000 AD (2024)
Book
Panato, M. (2024). River and Society in Northern Italy: The Po Valley, 500-1000 AD. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048558810

This book considers for the first time the relationship between the river environment and the economic and political structures of northern Italy in the post-Roman period. Through the study of the relationship between river and society over time, it... Read More about River and Society in Northern Italy: The Po Valley, 500-1000 AD.

Alternat(iv)e Fiction in T.S. Chaudhry’s The Queen of Sparta: Unrepresented Voices and Counterfactuality (2024)
Book Chapter
Fotheringham, L. (2024). Alternat(iv)e Fiction in T.S. Chaudhry’s The Queen of Sparta: Unrepresented Voices and Counterfactuality. In A. J. Quiroga Puertas, & L. Olabarria (Eds.), The Ancient World in Alternative History and Counterfactual Fictions (121-141). Bloomsbury Publishing

Who Gets Buried with a Bear? The Inclusion of Wild Animals in the Cremation Rite of Eastern England and Northern Germany (Fourth to Eighth Century CE) (2024)
Book Chapter
Squires, K., O'Regan, H., & Grimm, O. (in press). Who Gets Buried with a Bear? The Inclusion of Wild Animals in the Cremation Rite of Eastern England and Northern Germany (Fourth to Eighth Century CE). In Beast and human. Brepols Publishers

Cremation was the dominant mortuary practice amongst Germanic groups on the European continent before the coming of Christianity. Likewise, it was also a prominent rite in early medieval England (fifth to seventh centuries CE), particularly so in the... Read More about Who Gets Buried with a Bear? The Inclusion of Wild Animals in the Cremation Rite of Eastern England and Northern Germany (Fourth to Eighth Century CE).

Rapid Climate Change, Integrated Human–Environment–Historical Records and Societal Resilience in Georgia (2024)
Journal Article
Loveluck, C. P., Tielidze, L. G., Elashvili, M., Kurbatov, A. V., Gadrani, L., Erb-Satullo, N., von Suchodoletz, H., Dan, A., Laermanns, H., Brückner, H., Schlotzhauer, U., Sulava, N., & Chagelishvili, R. (2024). Rapid Climate Change, Integrated Human–Environment–Historical Records and Societal Resilience in Georgia. Sustainability, 16(16), Article 7116. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16167116

In the midlatitudes of the planet, we are facing the imminent disappearance of one of our best high-resolution (pre)historic climate and anthropogenic pollution archives, namely the loss of glacial ice, through accelerated global warming. To capture... Read More about Rapid Climate Change, Integrated Human–Environment–Historical Records and Societal Resilience in Georgia.

Cities and Complex Settlements in Early Medieval Europe, c. 500-1150 (2024)
Book Chapter
Loveluck, C., & Goodson, C. (in press). Cities and Complex Settlements in Early Medieval Europe, c. 500-1150. In P. Lantschner, & M. Prak (Eds.), Cambridge Urban History of Europe, Volume 2: Middle Ages and Early Modern. Cambridge University Press

Lost in Space? Finding the People in Late Antique Archaeology (2024)
Book Chapter
Bowden, W. (2024). Lost in Space? Finding the People in Late Antique Archaeology. In Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity. Taylor and Francis Group

This paper argues that late antique archaeologists’ focus on space (particularly urban space) reflects the origins of late antique archaeology in challenges to paradigms of “decline” as well as the broader disciplinary histories of classical archaeol... Read More about Lost in Space? Finding the People in Late Antique Archaeology.