Dimitri Van Limbergen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1344632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitri Van Limbergen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitri |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Limbergen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN LIMBERGEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7554-6513 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vine-growing and Winemaking in the Roman World: New Data and Original Perspectives
The ‘Place’ of Urban Wineries and Oileries in the Greek and Roman World
This paper is the first comprehensive Mediterranean-wide analysis of urban Greek and Roman wine and oil production sites. By using diverse examples from a range of periods we reassess the ‘place’ of urban viniculture and oleiculture against traditional explanations of ‘ruralization’, insecurity in the countryside, and urban contraction. New insight into how people engaged with urban spaces is developed through a combination of macro-level analysi…
Making wine in earthenware vessels: A comparative approach to Roman vinification
Wine was deeply embedded in all aspects of Roman life and its role in society, culture and the economy has been much studied. Ancient Roman texts and archaeological research provide valuable insights into viticulture and the manufacture, trade and consumption of wine but little is known of the sensory nature of this prized commodity. Here, the authors offer a novel oenological approach to the study of Roman dolia through their comparison with mod…
Pathways to Reframing the Roman Economy: From Uniformity to Diversity?
Debating the yield potential of vineyards in Roman Italy
This paper aims to reinvigorate the debate on ancient wine yields in Italy by on the one hand reassessing the available ancient textual evidence, and on the other hand carrying out an in-depth comparative study of wine yields in Italy from the late 19th to early 20th century. This period offers a historical scenario in which farming conditions approximated those of the Greco-Roman era, as they were characterized by low-technology and labor-based …
Reframing the Roman Economy: New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices
Agroforestry and the Reappraisal of Roman Viticulture
ld models and new ideasThe history of Roman wine in Italy between the end of the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) and the High Imperial period (late first-second century AD) has long been trapped within a flawed but quite resilient historiographical narrative. 1 In essence, the sto-O
Olivier Callot, Déhès II: Les pressoirs
Based on twelve years of fieldwork in the village of Déhès between 1998 and 2010, Olivier Callot’s new book is an important contribution to the study of press technology in the late antique East in more ways than one. The volume is the first monograph to appear on wine and oil presses in northern Syria since Callot’s own Huileries antiques de Syrie du Nord in 1984 (BAH 118), and the first publication tout court to offer a full discussion of all k…
What Romans ate and how much they ate of it. Old and new research on eating habits and dietary proportions in classical antiquity
This article reviews the current state of affairs regarding our knowledge on eating habits and dietary proportions in the Roman world. The narrative is centred on the main components of the ancient diet : cereals, wine, olive oil, meat, fish, vegetables, fruits and pulses. Focal points in the discussion are food types and calories. The author integrates literature, archaeology and natural sciences, and devotes particular attention to the possibil…
The Central Adriatic Wine Trade of Italy Revisited
Since Maria Teresa Cipriano's and Marie‐Brigitte Carre's seminal 1989 paper ‘Production et typologie des amphores sur la côte adriatique de l'Italie’ in the volume ‘Amphores romaines et histoire économique’, our knowledge of Adriatic Italian wine amphorae has much improved. Most of these ‘new data’, however, remain poorly known among the wider scholarly community and no real update regarding their production loci and distribution patterns has as …
Changing perspectives on roller presses in Late Antique Northern Syria
There has long been a widespread view that the economy of the North Syrian limestone massif in Late Antiquity was largely based on the production of olive oil. Over the years, however, it has become clear that the archaeological evidence to support this view is ambiguous in all senses. While certain installations are definitively large oil presses, a particular category of presses that used stone rollers in processing was most likely involved in …
Agroforestry and the Reappraisal of Roman Viticulture
ld models and new ideasThe history of Roman wine in Italy between the end of the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) and the High Imperial period (late first-second century AD) has long been trapped within a flawed but quite resilient historiographical narrative. 1 In essence, the sto-O
The Central Adriatic Wine Trade of Italy Revisited
Since Maria Teresa Cipriano's and Marie‐Brigitte Carre's seminal 1989 paper ‘Production et typologie des amphores sur la côte adriatique de l'Italie’ in the volume ‘Amphores romaines et histoire économique’, our knowledge of Adriatic Italian wine amphorae has much improved. Most of these ‘new data’, however, remain poorly known among the wider scholarly community and no real update regarding their production loci and distribution patterns has as …
Changing perspectives on roller presses in Late Antique Northern Syria
There has long been a widespread view that the economy of the North Syrian limestone massif in Late Antiquity was largely based on the production of olive oil. Over the years, however, it has become clear that the archaeological evidence to support this view is ambiguous in all senses. While certain installations are definitively large oil presses, a particular category of presses that used stone rollers in processing was most likely involved in …
What Romans ate and how much they ate of it. Old and new research on eating habits and dietary proportions in classical antiquity
This article reviews the current state of affairs regarding our knowledge on eating habits and dietary proportions in the Roman world. The narrative is centred on the main components of the ancient diet : cereals, wine, olive oil, meat, fish, vegetables, fruits and pulses. Focal points in the discussion are food types and calories. The author integrates literature, archaeology and natural sciences, and devotes particular attention to the possibil…
The Central Adriatic Wine Trade of Italy Revisited
Since Maria Teresa Cipriano's and Marie‐Brigitte Carre's seminal 1989 paper ‘Production et typologie des amphores sur la côte adriatique de l'Italie’ in the volume ‘Amphores romaines et histoire économique’, our knowledge of Adriatic Italian wine amphorae has much improved. Most of these ‘new data’, however, remain poorly known among the wider scholarly community and no real update regarding their production loci and distribution patterns has as …
Olivier Callot, Déhès II: Les pressoirs
Based on twelve years of fieldwork in the village of Déhès between 1998 and 2010, Olivier Callot’s new book is an important contribution to the study of press technology in the late antique East in more ways than one. The volume is the first monograph to appear on wine and oil presses in northern Syria since Callot’s own Huileries antiques de Syrie du Nord in 1984 (BAH 118), and the first publication tout court to offer a full discussion of all k…
Agroforestry and the Reappraisal of Roman Viticulture
ld models and new ideasThe history of Roman wine in Italy between the end of the Second Punic War (218-201 BC) and the High Imperial period (late first-second century AD) has long been trapped within a flawed but quite resilient historiographical narrative. 1 In essence, the sto-O
Pathways to Reframing the Roman Economy: From Uniformity to Diversity?
Debating the yield potential of vineyards in Roman Italy
This paper aims to reinvigorate the debate on ancient wine yields in Italy by on the one hand reassessing the available ancient textual evidence, and on the other hand carrying out an in-depth comparative study of wine yields in Italy from the late 19th to early 20th century. This period offers a historical scenario in which farming conditions approximated those of the Greco-Roman era, as they were characterized by low-technology and labor-based …
Reframing the Roman Economy: New Perspectives on Habitual Economic Practices
The ‘Place’ of Urban Wineries and Oileries in the Greek and Roman World
This paper is the first comprehensive Mediterranean-wide analysis of urban Greek and Roman wine and oil production sites. By using diverse examples from a range of periods we reassess the ‘place’ of urban viniculture and oleiculture against traditional explanations of ‘ruralization’, insecurity in the countryside, and urban contraction. New insight into how people engaged with urban spaces is developed through a combination of macro-level analysi…
Making wine in earthenware vessels: A comparative approach to Roman vinification
Wine was deeply embedded in all aspects of Roman life and its role in society, culture and the economy has been much studied. Ancient Roman texts and archaeological research provide valuable insights into viticulture and the manufacture, trade and consumption of wine but little is known of the sensory nature of this prized commodity. Here, the authors offer a novel oenological approach to the study of Roman dolia through their comparison with mod…
Vine-growing and Winemaking in the Roman World: New Data and Original Perspectives
History (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Horticultural and Viticultural Research (4 works) · Wine (4 works) · Biology (3 works)