Performing the Sacra

Priestly roles and their organisation in Roman Britain

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ID9392200
AuthorsAlessandra Esposito (0000-0001-8959-4519, corresponding author)
Year2019
Publication date2019-02-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePerforming the Sacra (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherArchaeopress Publishing Ltd (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/j.ctvndv5q2
OpenAlexW2969927750
ISBN9781789690989
Open LibraryOL36244975M
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Performing the Sacra: Priestly roles and their organisation in Roman Britain' addresses a range of cultural responses to the Roman conquest of Britain with regard to priestly roles. The approach is based on current theoretical trends focussing on dynamics of adaptation, multiculturalism, and appropriation and discarding a sharp distinction between local and Roman cults. The perspective is shifted from a centre-periphery model towards a spectrum of cultural responses. The book investigates a wide range of published and unpublished evidence to examine three main themes: a model of priesthood organisation, the embodiment of priestly authorities in a provincial environment, and how the different depositional contexts of priestly regalia contribute to our understanding of these roles. Previous accounts of this type of evidence from Britain has often linked the objects to local cults, for being somehow specific to the province. This was based on a limited search for comparisons among the evidence from other areas of the Roman world, both in terms of the individual objects and of the overall priestly organisation. Here, a methodical investigation of objects identifiable as priestly regalia and ceremonial tools was integrated into an assessment of historical, epigraphic, and iconographic sources

Ancient history · Art · Political science · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Architectural Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Clergy · Excavations (Archaeology) · Great britain · Priests

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