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Language and History in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial West (2023)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A., & Woudhuysen, G. (2023). Language and History in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial West. In A. Mullen, & G. Woudhuysen (Eds.), Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Social dimensions of Latinization (2023)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A. (2023). Social dimensions of Latinization. In A. Mullen (Ed.), Social factors in the Latinization of the Roman West. Oxford University Press (OUP)

A Scato-sexual Message: The Secundinus Stone with Phallus from Vindolanda (2023)
Journal Article
Meyer, A., Mullen, A., & Vanhala, J. (2023). A Scato-sexual Message: The Secundinus Stone with Phallus from Vindolanda. Britannia, 54, 305-320. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X2300020X

The Secundinus stone, with its combination of carved phallus and text, was found in 2022 in excavations within the stone fort at Vindolanda. We consider comparanda for the imagery from Vindolanda, Britannia and further afield, and textual parallels p... Read More about A Scato-sexual Message: The Secundinus Stone with Phallus from Vindolanda.

Transformations de la Gaule sous l’Empire romain : une culture de l’écrit au service de la production de masse (2023)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A. (2023). Transformations de la Gaule sous l’Empire romain : une culture de l’écrit au service de la production de masse. In M. Coltelloni-Trannoy, & N. Moncunill Marti (Eds.), La culture de l'écrit en Méditerranée occidentale à travers les pratiques épigraphiques (Gaule, Ibérie, Afrique du Nord). Peeters

The rise of Rome brought with it the creation and spread of a culture of writing across Gaul. Another major transformation of the Roman period was the advent of mass production. These two developments coincided in the large potteries to produce local... Read More about Transformations de la Gaule sous l’Empire romain : une culture de l’écrit au service de la production de masse.

Voices of Roman Britain (2022)
Journal Article
MULLEN, A. (2022). Voices of Roman Britain. Omnibus (London), 83, 30-32

Roman Britain is often seen as a backwater. It offers us few standing remains to rival the likes of the Colosseum or the Pont standing remains to rival the likes of the Colosseum or the Pont du Gard; few of its protagonists get big billing in Roman h... Read More about Voices of Roman Britain.

Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. Volume 1, Scripts and Texts (2021)
Book
Mullen, A., & Bowman, A. (2021). Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. Volume 1, Scripts and Texts. Nottingham: LatinNow ePubs

Volume 1 describes the kinds of documents that are written in Latin cursive script and tabulates the main published collections and individual items of texts in cursive script from across the Roman world, ranging in provenance from northern England t... Read More about Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. Volume 1, Scripts and Texts.

Gaulish language and epigraphic culture (2020)
Journal Article
Mullen, A., & Ruiz Darasse, C. (2020). Gaulish language and epigraphic culture. Palaeohispanica, 20, 749-783. https://doi.org/10.36707/palaeohispanica.v0i20.383

Gaulish is a language in the Celtic language family, documented in Gaul (France and surrounding territories) from around the 2nd century BC and through the Roman period. It is transmitted primarily in Greek (Gallo-Greek) and Latin (Gallo-Latin) scrip... Read More about Gaulish language and epigraphic culture.

Sociolinguistics (part of Research and interpretation of Hadrian’s Wall 2009-2019) (2019)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A. (2019). Sociolinguistics (part of Research and interpretation of Hadrian’s Wall 2009-2019). In Hadrian's Wall 2009-2019 : A Summary of Excavation and Research prepared for The Fourteenth Pilgrimage of Hadrian’s Wall, 20-28 July 2019 (102-105). Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society and the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne

Landscape, Monumentality and Expression of Group identities in Iron Age and Roman east Kent (2019)
Journal Article
Wallace, L., & Mullen, A. (2019). Landscape, Monumentality and Expression of Group identities in Iron Age and Roman east Kent. Britannia, 50, 75-108. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X19000308

The Canterbury Hinterland Project (CHP) has combined aerial photographic and LiDAR analysis, synthesis of HER and other data across east Kent with targeted survey south and east of Canterbury. We present possible hillforts, temples, large enclosures,... Read More about Landscape, Monumentality and Expression of Group identities in Iron Age and Roman east Kent.

More from the Romano-British poets? A possible metrical inscription from East Farleigh, Kent (2019)
Journal Article
Mullen, A., & Tomlin, R. (2019). More from the Romano-British poets? A possible metrical inscription from East Farleigh, Kent. Britannia, 50, 367-374. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X19000084

A four-line inscription in Old Roman Cursive on a pot base found in excavations in East Farleigh, Kent, in 2010 appears to be written (at least in part) in metre and has close textual similarities with examples from Binchester, County Durham. We desc... Read More about More from the Romano-British poets? A possible metrical inscription from East Farleigh, Kent.

Was Latin epigraphy a killer? (2019)
Journal Article
MULLEN, A. (2019). Was Latin epigraphy a killer?. Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents Newsletter, 23, 2-5

Roman London’s First Voices. Writing tablets from the Bloomberg excavations, 2010–14, by Roger S.O. Tomlin, 2016. London: Museum of London Archaeology; ISBN 978-1-907586-40-8 hardback £32; xv+309 pp., 144 b/w and colour illus. (2017)
Journal Article
Mullen, A. (in press). Roman London’s First Voices. Writing tablets from the Bloomberg excavations, 2010–14, by Roger S.O. Tomlin, 2016. London: Museum of London Archaeology; ISBN 978-1-907586-40-8 hardback £32; xv+309 pp., 144 b/w and colour illus. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 27(4), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774317000464

‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature (2015)
Journal Article
Mullen, A. (2015). ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature. Language and Literature, 24(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947015585244

After a short introduction to code-switching and Classics, this article offers an overview of the phenomenon of code-switching in Roman literature with some comments on possible generic restrictions, followed by a survey of Roman attitudes to the pra... Read More about ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature.

Bilingualism and multilingualism in the Roman world (2015)
Journal Article
Mullen, A. (2015). Bilingualism and multilingualism in the Roman world. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0197

Roman authors referred to Latin and Greek as utraque lingua (both our languages), and the study of Classics has traditionally entailed an appreciation of the entanglement and complex relations between Latin and Greek language and literature. However,... Read More about Bilingualism and multilingualism in the Roman world.

Why diachronicity matters in the study of linguistic landscapes (2015)
Journal Article
Pavlenko, A., & Mullen, A. (2015). Why diachronicity matters in the study of linguistic landscapes. Linguistic Landscape, 1(1-2), https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.1.1-2.07pav

It is commonly argued that the proliferation of urban writing known as linguistic landscapes represents “a thoroughly contemporary global trend” (Coupland, 2010: 78). The purpose of this paper is to show that linguistic landscapes are by no means mod... Read More about Why diachronicity matters in the study of linguistic landscapes.

Sociolinguistics (2014)
Book Chapter
Mullen, A. (2016). Sociolinguistics. In M. Millett, L. Revell, & A. Moore (Eds.), Oxford handbook of Roman Britain. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697731.013.032

This chapter begins by considering the motivations for undertaking sociolinguistic studies and discusses the range and quality of evidence that can be marshalled for early Britain. The pre-Roman linguistic situation and the advent and spread of Latin... Read More about Sociolinguistics.

Developing immersive experience at Caistor Roman Town: Final report on AHRC Next Generation of Immersive Experiences Project (2018)
Report
Bowden, W., Brundell, P., Harlow, N., Martin-Jones, A., & Mullen, A. (2018). Developing immersive experience at Caistor Roman Town: Final report on AHRC Next Generation of Immersive Experiences Project (2018). Nottingham: Arts and Humanities Research Council

This case study documents the approach taken to developing and evaluating a mobile app for the Roman town at Venta Icenorum and includes a qualitative summary of the AR technique and evaluation of its effectiveness, for use by other researchers under... Read More about Developing immersive experience at Caistor Roman Town: Final report on AHRC Next Generation of Immersive Experiences Project (2018).