Caroline Goodson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5208502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Goodson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodson |
| SIGNATURE | GOODSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2925-2984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
Volume II charts European urbanism between 700–1850, the millennium during which Europe became the world's most urbanised region. Featuring thirty-six chapters from leading scholars working on all the major linguistic areas of Europe, the volume offers a state-of-the-art survey that explores and explains this transformation, how similar or different such processes were across Europe, and how far it is possible to discern traits that characterise …
Papyrus Economies and the Experience of Early Medieval Papal Documents
The medium of papyrus, a ubiquitous, state-sponsored product in the Roman world, was turned by the empire’s loss of Egypt in the 630s–640s into a comparatively rare, high-status good in the early medieval northern Mediterranean (though not in the early caliphate, where it continued to have more or less the same value and associations as it had in the Roman period). The significance of papyrus altered radically as its economic value outside the Is…
The Donkey and the Boat
Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome
Growing Up at Villamagna
This study examines the interplay between sex, gender, and child-rearing using multiple markers of skeletal growthand health in the late-medieval central Italian population of Villamagna. To reflect the complexity of growth and heterogeneity of the skeleton, we used a multi-method approach: vertebral neural canal dimensions (n = 65), cribra orbitalia (n = 66), porotic hyperostosis (n = 73), linear enamel hypoplasia (n = 51), and terminal adult st…
Medieval Mouths in Context
THIS PAPER EXAMINES THE CULTURAL FRAMEWORK and material evidence for teeth and oral health in later medieval Europe, using as a case study the bioarchaeological analysis of an excavated cemetery in central Italy (Villamagna). It proffers an alternative approach to the study of human skeletal material by reframing the questions that bioarchaeologists normally ask about mouths. Instead of stopping at, ‘how much disease?’ or ‘what state of health?’,…
Rome in the Eighth Century
Guy Geltner. Roads to Health
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, no one can overlook how government policies around disease and the diseased have reconfigured peoples’ daily lives, nor can we overlook the wide variance of opinion around what should be done to manage health among populations. Geltner’s Roads to Health, published just before the global outbreak, innovatively explores these concerns and their solutions in later medieval Italy. With outstanding insight, Geltner offers …
Economic access influences degenerative spine disease outcomes at rural Late Medieval Villamagna (Lazio, IT )
OBJECTIVES: Degenerative joint disease in the spine is heavily influenced by genetic, environmental, and epigenetic factors, as well as exacerbated by physical activity and injury. The objective of this study was to investigate the multivariate relationship between known predictors of degenerative joint disease in the spine, such as age and sex, with mortuary indicators of economic access such as grave inclusions, burial location, and burial type…
Admirable and delectable gardens
This article will chart the usage of a rare term, uiridarium, in the documents of early medieval Italy in order to explore the history of decorative or pleasure gardens between c.600–c.1000. Property documents and placita, alongside a small body of archaeobotanical evidence, suggest a significant change in the planting of cultivated spaces in Italian cities during the early Middle Ages. A few charters refer to enclosed gardens called uiridaria at…
Making sense of medieval mouths
OBJECTIVES: Bioarchaeological investigations of sex-based differences in the prevalence of dental pathological lesions, particularly caries, have drawn considerable attention, and out of this work, two dominant models have emerged. Traditionally, the first model interprets sex-related patterns in caries as a product of gendered differences in diet. A more recent model interprets a generally higher propensity for caries prevalence in females in li…
Lateranus
The name “Lateran” given to the fourth century basilica and later papal palace in the east of Rome refers to the consul whose property there, the aedes Lateranorum , was seized by the emperor Nero in the first century, and the aedes Laterani , a residence given by Septimius Severus to his general T. Sextus Lateranus.
Ravenna
Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean
Felix Ravenna. La croce, la spada, la vela
Das Bild der Stadt Rom im Frühmittelalter. Papstiftungen im Spiegel des Liber Pontificalis von Gregor dem Dritten biz zu Leo dem Dritten – By Franz Alto Bauer
The Origins of Medieval Architecture ‐ By Charles B. McClendon
Material memory
Examining Pope Paschal I's early ninth‐century architectural project of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome, brings to light the diversity of functions of tituli in early medieval Rome. Not only was the church a papal basilica and site of the stational liturgy of Rome, but it was also a shrine to the saint Cecilia, a popular Roman martyr. The architectural arrangement makes clear that the papal project incorporated both the papal cult and the popular …
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports
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Revival and Reality
The monumental architecture of the early middle ages in Rome has long been explained as a revival of ancient architecture, specifically Constantinian basilicas, a theory first advanced by Richard Krautheimer in two seminal articles in 1942. This article seeks to explore other ways in which early medieval buildings were significant, taking as its focus the basilica of S. Prassede, built by Paschal I (817-24). Paschal’s church incorporated a very s…
Making sense of medieval mouths
OBJECTIVES: Bioarchaeological investigations of sex-based differences in the prevalence of dental pathological lesions, particularly caries, have drawn considerable attention, and out of this work, two dominant models have emerged. Traditionally, the first model interprets sex-related patterns in caries as a product of gendered differences in diet. A more recent model interprets a generally higher propensity for caries prevalence in females in li…
Material memory
Examining Pope Paschal I's early ninth‐century architectural project of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome, brings to light the diversity of functions of tituli in early medieval Rome. Not only was the church a papal basilica and site of the stational liturgy of Rome, but it was also a shrine to the saint Cecilia, a popular Roman martyr. The architectural arrangement makes clear that the papal project incorporated both the papal cult and the popular …
Medieval Mouths in Context
THIS PAPER EXAMINES THE CULTURAL FRAMEWORK and material evidence for teeth and oral health in later medieval Europe, using as a case study the bioarchaeological analysis of an excavated cemetery in central Italy (Villamagna). It proffers an alternative approach to the study of human skeletal material by reframing the questions that bioarchaeologists normally ask about mouths. Instead of stopping at, ‘how much disease?’ or ‘what state of health?’,…
Revival and Reality
The monumental architecture of the early middle ages in Rome has long been explained as a revival of ancient architecture, specifically Constantinian basilicas, a theory first advanced by Richard Krautheimer in two seminal articles in 1942. This article seeks to explore other ways in which early medieval buildings were significant, taking as its focus the basilica of S. Prassede, built by Paschal I (817-24). Paschal’s church incorporated a very s…
Material memory
Examining Pope Paschal I's early ninth‐century architectural project of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome, brings to light the diversity of functions of tituli in early medieval Rome. Not only was the church a papal basilica and site of the stational liturgy of Rome, but it was also a shrine to the saint Cecilia, a popular Roman martyr. The architectural arrangement makes clear that the papal project incorporated both the papal cult and the popular …
Archaeological Fieldwork Reports
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Origins of Medieval Architecture ‐ By Charles B. McClendon
Felix Ravenna. La croce, la spada, la vela
Das Bild der Stadt Rom im Frühmittelalter. Papstiftungen im Spiegel des Liber Pontificalis von Gregor dem Dritten biz zu Leo dem Dritten – By Franz Alto Bauer
Lateranus
The name “Lateran” given to the fourth century basilica and later papal palace in the east of Rome refers to the consul whose property there, the aedes Lateranorum , was seized by the emperor Nero in the first century, and the aedes Laterani , a residence given by Septimius Severus to his general T. Sextus Lateranus.
Ravenna
Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean
Admirable and delectable gardens
This article will chart the usage of a rare term, uiridarium, in the documents of early medieval Italy in order to explore the history of decorative or pleasure gardens between c.600–c.1000. Property documents and placita, alongside a small body of archaeobotanical evidence, suggest a significant change in the planting of cultivated spaces in Italian cities during the early Middle Ages. A few charters refer to enclosed gardens called uiridaria at…
Making sense of medieval mouths
OBJECTIVES: Bioarchaeological investigations of sex-based differences in the prevalence of dental pathological lesions, particularly caries, have drawn considerable attention, and out of this work, two dominant models have emerged. Traditionally, the first model interprets sex-related patterns in caries as a product of gendered differences in diet. A more recent model interprets a generally higher propensity for caries prevalence in females in li…
Economic access influences degenerative spine disease outcomes at rural Late Medieval Villamagna (Lazio, IT )
OBJECTIVES: Degenerative joint disease in the spine is heavily influenced by genetic, environmental, and epigenetic factors, as well as exacerbated by physical activity and injury. The objective of this study was to investigate the multivariate relationship between known predictors of degenerative joint disease in the spine, such as age and sex, with mortuary indicators of economic access such as grave inclusions, burial location, and burial type…
Guy Geltner. Roads to Health
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, no one can overlook how government policies around disease and the diseased have reconfigured peoples’ daily lives, nor can we overlook the wide variance of opinion around what should be done to manage health among populations. Geltner’s Roads to Health, published just before the global outbreak, innovatively explores these concerns and their solutions in later medieval Italy. With outstanding insight, Geltner offers …
Growing Up at Villamagna
This study examines the interplay between sex, gender, and child-rearing using multiple markers of skeletal growthand health in the late-medieval central Italian population of Villamagna. To reflect the complexity of growth and heterogeneity of the skeleton, we used a multi-method approach: vertebral neural canal dimensions (n = 65), cribra orbitalia (n = 66), porotic hyperostosis (n = 73), linear enamel hypoplasia (n = 51), and terminal adult st…
Medieval Mouths in Context
THIS PAPER EXAMINES THE CULTURAL FRAMEWORK and material evidence for teeth and oral health in later medieval Europe, using as a case study the bioarchaeological analysis of an excavated cemetery in central Italy (Villamagna). It proffers an alternative approach to the study of human skeletal material by reframing the questions that bioarchaeologists normally ask about mouths. Instead of stopping at, ‘how much disease?’ or ‘what state of health?’,…
Rome in the Eighth Century
Plants, Politics and Empire in Ancient Rome
The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
Volume II charts European urbanism between 700–1850, the millennium during which Europe became the world's most urbanised region. Featuring thirty-six chapters from leading scholars working on all the major linguistic areas of Europe, the volume offers a state-of-the-art survey that explores and explains this transformation, how similar or different such processes were across Europe, and how far it is possible to discern traits that characterise …
Papyrus Economies and the Experience of Early Medieval Papal Documents
The medium of papyrus, a ubiquitous, state-sponsored product in the Roman world, was turned by the empire’s loss of Egypt in the 630s–640s into a comparatively rare, high-status good in the early medieval northern Mediterranean (though not in the early caliphate, where it continued to have more or less the same value and associations as it had in the Roman period). The significance of papyrus altered radically as its economic value outside the Is…
The Donkey and the Boat
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