Roman Peasant and Rural Organisation in Central Italy

An Archaeological Perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID21251240
AuthorsPeter Van Dommelen (0000-0003-0970-6651, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume0
Issue1991
Pages166
Publication date1993-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheoretical Roman Archaeology Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2515-2289 • E-ISSN: 2515-2289
PublisherOpen Library of the Humanities (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.16995/trac1991_167_186
OpenAlexW2763384312
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited9

Roman rural landscapes have long been associated with villas, that generally were regarded as its central feature; studies of Roman landscapes were consequently often limited to a villa and its immediate vicinity. This bias in most historical and archaeological research is now increasingly being redressed, mainly by intensive archaeological surveying. The resulting large numbers of small rural sites in particular point to a much more varied Roman countryside with considerably more complex organisation. Concentrating on the rural landscape outside the villas, therefore, the peasantry and their relations with the rural elite are the central issues in a case study of a small valley in Roman northern Etruria

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Elite · Geography · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Rural area · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Historical and Architectural Studies · History · Medieval Architecture and Archaeology

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