Generations of aristocracy

Continuities and discontinuities in the societies of Interior Gaul

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ID2130863
AuthorsGreg Woolf (0000-0003-3470-9061, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume9
Issue1
Pages2-15
Publication date2002-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchaeological Dialogues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1380-2038 • E-ISSN: 1478-2294
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1380203800002002
OpenAlexW2148777265
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited60

This paper sets out to examine issues of continuity and change in the social hierarchies of the peoples of the Gallic interior, between the late Iron Age and the early Roman period. This part of the empire is one in which we might reasonably expect to find substantial continuity of social structure. Many scholars have argued that this is indeed the case, notwithstanding the evident changes in material culture. This paper argues that the opposite was true. Apparent similarities, I suggest, reinforced by the ways we have studied provincial cultures, have masked dramatic changes in the basis of social power. That conclusion has implications for other provincial societies, and for Roman imperialism in general

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Aristocracy (class · Art · Empire · Ethnology · Genealogy · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Roman Empire · Sociology · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Classical Antiquity Studies · Globalization, Historical Perspectives, and International Relations · History · Law

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