Ray Laurence

Biographic Data

ID343661
NAMERay Laurence
GIVEN NAMESRay
FAMILY NAMELaurence
SIGNATURELAURENCE R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Reading
ORCID0000-0002-8229-1053
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS81
AUTHOR COUNT36
EDITOR COUNT6
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX5

  • Mediterranean Timescapes: Chronological Age and Cultural Practice in the Roman Empire

    Ray Laurence, Francesco TrifilòBOOKMediterranean Timescapes2023

    This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across this region. Discrepancies between the use of time to represent identity in death allow readers to begin to understand the differences between the cultures of Roman Italy and contemporary societies in North Africa…

  • A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Revolution And Empire

    Erika Diane Rappaport, Erika Rappaport et al.BOOKA Cultural History of Shopping in…2022

    Shopping emerged as a special pleasure and problem during the period between the revolutionary upheavals of the late 18th century and the opening salvoes of the Great War. New shops, new products, new class and gender ideologies, new standards of comfort and hygiene, and rising living standards for some meant that people, especially women, spent more time shopping and engaging in consumer-oriented activities beyond the walls of the shop. At the s…

  • HHpXRF study of recent zinc and lead pollution on lava stepping stones from Pompeii: Tourist footfall, tyre dust and leaded petrol

    Open AccessM A Worthing, M Worthing et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2020References: 12

    A helium‐enabled Niton X‐ray analyser (HHpXRF) study of 296 lava stepping stones from ancient Pompeii showed that their surfaces were contaminated with superficial deposits of Zn and Pb. Recent research has shown that concentrations of these elements are highest in urban areas, where they were attributed to tyre dust and leaded petrol, respectively. The distribution of these elements on the stepping stones is represented on maps of the site. Zn p…

  • Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World

    Jussi ca /21 Jh Rantala, Ville Vuolanto et al.BOOKGender, Memory, and Identity in…2019

  • The meaning of roadsA reinterpretation of the Roman Empire

    Ray LaurenceCHAPTERTravel Pilgrimage and Social…2019

    This chapter is concerned with economics and focuses on travel as an experience that brought individuals into contact with the agency of the Roman state. It also focuses on how the road, as a linear structure, connected the local to the global. Roads are described as old in more than 200 inscriptions from across the Roman Empire, sometimes these inscriptions specify that it was the road and the bridges that had become old. Augustus, initially, es…

  • Trajan's Forum (Hemicycle) and the Via Biberatica (Trajan's Markets): An HHpXRF Study of the Provenance of Lava Paving in Ancient Rome (Italy)

    Open AccessM A Worthing, Ray Laurence et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2018Cited by: 1References: 21

    This paper reports on geochemical data collected using a He‐enabled handheld portable XRF (HHpXRF) from lava paving stones in Trajan's Forum (Hemicycle) and the Via Biberatica (Rome). Issues relating to HHpXRF field use and calibration are also addressed in detail. By means of this instrument, 355 analyses of the paving stones were collected and the data were processed using the standard techniques of igneous petrology and petrography. Provenanci…

  • Geochemical Methods for Sourcing Lava Paving Stones from the Roman Roads of Central Italy

    Open AccessM A Worthing, M Worthing et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2017Cited by: 2References: 35

    This paper documents the results of in situ analysis of 306 lava paving stones and 74 possible source rocks using pXRF. Data were collected from sites both in the city of Rome—on major roads beyond the city (including the Viae Flaminia, Cassia, Clodia, Praenestina and Appia)—and in the city of Ostia. Comparison of the pXRF data with lava compositional data from the geological literature allows broad identification of possible sources. The results…

  • A Companion to Roman Italy

    Open AccessRay Laurence, Alison E CooleyBOOKCompanion to Roman Italy2016Cited by: 1

    Pompeii provides historians with the means to understand urbanism and its links to its hinterland. This chapter looks to the cultural memory of Pompeii's past located in texts and then moves on to examine the role of emulation, housing, and urban spectacle. In so doing, the site is set in the context of both its history and its landscape. The chapter emphasizes the role of both textual and archaeological sources as means to presenting an overview…

  • The global and the local in the Roman empire: Connectivity and mobility from an urban perspective

    Open AccessRay Laurence, Francesco TrifilòCHAPTERGlobalisation and the Roman World2014

  • Globalisation and the Roman World: World History, Connectivity and Material Culture

    Open AccessTamar Hodos, Richard Hingley et al.BOOKGlobalisation and the Roman World2014

    This book explores a new perspective for understanding the Roman world, using connectivity as a major point of departure. Globalisation is apparent in increased flows of objects, people and ideas and in the creation of translocal consciousness in everyday life. Based on these criteria, there is a case for globalisation in the ancient Roman world. Essential for anyone interested in Romanisation, this volume provides the first sustained critical ex…

  • Turismo E Romanità: Uma Nova Visão De Pompeia (1924-1942)

    Open AccessRay LaurenceARTICLEHistória Questões & Debates2014

    Em 1958, durante o final da sua longa supervisão de escavações na cidade de Pompeia, Amedeo Maiuri fez numerosas observações a respeito da interação existente entre o sítio arqueológico e os turistas que o visita- ram3. Essas observações revelaram um propósito para o seu trabalho que culminaram na remodelação das ruínas da cidade de Pompeia, por meio de novas escavações e novos projetos de conservação. Seu foco era o início da temporada de turism…

  • Traffic and land transportation in and near Rome

    Open AccessRay LaurenceCHAPTERCambridge Companion to Ancient Rome2013

    Sections cover: a)Traffic Flow and Layout of the City b) Traffic Congestion and the Roman Street c) The ban on Vehicles in the Centre of Rome d) Traffic Flow

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome

    Open AccessGregory S Aldrete, Alexandre Grandazzi et al.BOOKCambridge Companion to Ancient Rome2013

    Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss …

  • Rivers

    Open AccessRay LaurenceCHAPTERThe Encyclopedia of Ancient History2012

    Rivers were regarded as wonders for poets to recall (Polybius 2.16), and were a focus for historians from Herodotus (2.10) onwards. Literature from antiquity presents rivers as both dividing and connecting geographical features, for example, the Euphrates.

  • Travel and Geography in the Roman Empire

    Colin Adams, Ray LaurenceBOOKTravel and Geography in the Roman…2012

    The remains of Roman roads are a powerful reminder of the travel and communications system that was needed to rule a vast and diverse empire. Yet few people have questioned just how the Romans - both military and civilians - travelled, or examined their geographical understanding in an era which offered a greatly increased potential for moving around, and a much bigger choice of destinations. This volume provides new perspectives on these issues,…

  • Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space.

    Ray Laurence, David J NewsomeBOOKRome, Ostia, Pompeii2011

    This book demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and motion within urban spaces. Detailed case studies from the three best-known cities of Roman Italy are provided, revealing how movement contributes to our understanding of the ways that different elements of society interacted in space, and how the movement of people and materials shaped urban development. The chapters examine the imp…

  • Families in the Greco-Roman World

    Ray Laurence, Agneta StrömbergBOOKFamilies in the Greco-Roman World2011

    The family has been recognised in the ancient world as the key social institution on which both society and the state are based. However, in the pre-Classical and Classical world the family was constructed in dissimilar ways and provides the means to explaining why the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, although sharing many cultural features, in fact differed greatly. This volume draws on the most recent work of leading scholars in the …

  • Endpiece

    Ray LaurenceCHAPTERRome, Ostia, Pompeii2011

    This volume opened a new chapter in the historiography of Roman urbanism and has a wide significance for the study of both Roman archaeology and Roman history. It identified a shift from the study of space to a study of movement, which causes the study of the Roman city to keep pace with changes in foci within the disciplines of geography and the social sciences. This chapter explores this new focus to find new lines of enquiry and to update thin…

  • Literature and the Spatial Turn

    Ray LaurenceCHAPTERRome, Ostia, Pompeii2011

    This chapter examines the representation of movement and the city of Rome in Martial's Epigrams, written in the late first century CE. It demonstrates how temporal context is imperative for understanding the city which Martial writes about. Martial's representation of place is also a representation of time, whether that be the timing of urban redevelopment (in the aftermath of the fires of 64 and 80 CE), the timing of emperors (i.e. the period of…

  • Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space

    David J Newsome, Ray LaurenceBOOKRome, Ostia, Pompeii2011

    "Demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and motion within urban spaces. This volume provides detailed case studies from the three best-known cities from Roman Italy, revealing how movement contributes to our understanding of the ways different elements of society interacted in space, and how the movement of people and materials shaped urban development."--Book jacket

  • The City in the Roman West, c.250 BC–c.AD 250

    Open AccessRay Laurence, Simon Esmonde Cleary et al.BOOKCity in the Roman West, C. 250…2011

    The city is widely regarded as the most characteristic expression of the social, cultural and economic formations of the Roman Empire. This was especially true in the Latin-speaking West, where urbanism was much less deeply ingrained than in the Greek-speaking East but where networks of cities grew up during the centuries following conquest and occupation. This up-to-date and well-illustrated synthesis provides students and specialists with an ov…

  • Health and the Life Course at Herculaneum and Pompeii

    Ray LaurenceCHAPTERHealth in Antiquity2010

  • Roman Pompeii: Space and Society

    Ray LaurenceBOOKRoman Pompeii2010Cited by: 2

    In this fully revised and updated edition of Roman Pompeii, Dr. Laurence looks at the latest archaeological and literary evidence relating to the city of Pompeii from the viewpoint of architect, geographer and social scientist. Enhancing our general understanding of the Roman world, this new edition includes new chapters that reveal how the young learnt the culture of the city and to investigate the role of property development and real estate in…

  • Roman passions: Pleasures in Imperial Rome

    Ray LaurenceBOOKRoman passions2009

    Introduction: Roman Pleasures 1: Into the World of Pleasure 2: The Dynamics of Pleasure 3: The Emperor's Pleasures 4: Pleasure and the Aesthetics of the City 5: Landscapes of Delight 6: The Roman Body at the Baths 7: Roman Desires 8: Roman Erotics 9: The Dynamics of Dining 10: Food and its Consumption 11: Song and Dance 12: Violence 13: Festivals and Pleasure 14: The Lure of the Exotic 15: When Pleasure Ends Bibliography Index

  • Reading death in ancient Rome

    Ray LaurenceARTICLEMortality2009Cited by: 2

    Reading death in ancient Rome, by Mario Erasmo, Columbus, Ohio State University Press, 2008, 257 pp., US $49.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8142-1092-5 Mario Erasmo opens his book with a discussion of