Urban Space and Urban History in the Roman World

Miko Flohr is Lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University. His research focuses on the archaeology of urban economies in Roman Italy. He published the monograph The World of the Fullo: Work, Economy and Society in Roman Italy (2013), and co-edited the volumes Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World (2016), and The Economy of Pompeii (2017). He is currently preparing a monograph on the architectural and economic history of the taberna and co-editing Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World.

• From urban space to urban history – an introductionMiko FlohrPART I. EXPERIENCING THE CITY Political space and the experience of citizenship in the city of Rome: architecture and interpellationAmy Russell Emotion and the city: the example of PompeiiAnnette Haug Hilltops, heat, and precipitation: Roman urban life and the natural environmentMiko FlohrPART II. COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, AND URBAN SPACE Topographical permeability and the dynamics of public space in Roman MinturnaePatric-Alexander Kreuz Antique statuary and urban identity in Roman GreeceChristopher P. Dickenson Women in the forum: the cases of Italy and Roman North AfricaCristina Murer Religion in the urban landscape: the special case of RomeMarlis ArnholdPART III. COMMERCE AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE Sacred transactions: religion and markets in Roman urbanismElizabeth Fentress Fora and commerce in Roman ItalyMiko Flohr The archaeology of urban workshops in the Roman MaghrebTouatia Amraoui The ports of Roman Lycia: urbanism, networks, and hierarchiesCandace M. RicePART IV. URBAN LIFE BEYOND THE CITY WALLS Urban borderscapes in Roman Italy: arenas for social, political and cultural interactionSaskia Stevens The tabernae outside Porta Ercolano in Pompeii and their contextSandra Zanella Roman roads as an indicator of urban life: the Via Appia near RomeStephan T.A.M. Mols and Eric Moormann

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