Ethnic identity and imperial power the Batavians in the early Roman Empire
This probing case study examines the evolution of the ethnic identity of the Batavians, a lower Rhineland tribe in the western marches of the Roman Empire. Drawing on extensive historical and archaeological data, Nico Roymans examines how between 50 BCE and 70 CE, the Romans cultivated the Batavians...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
c2004.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Amsterdam archaeological studies ;
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427563206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; Preface; 1 Research aims, central concepts and perspectives; 2 Social change in the Late Iron Age Lower Rhine region; 3 Caesar's conquest and the ethnic reshuffling of the Lower Rhine frontier zone; 4 The gold triskeles coinages of the Eburones; 5 Roman frontier politics and the formation of a Batavian polity; 6 The Lower Rhine triquetrum coinages and the formation of a Batavian polity; 7 Kessel/Lith. A Late Iron Age central place in the Rhine/Meuse delta; 8 The political and institutional structure of the pre-Flavian civitas Batavorum
- 9 Foederis Romani monumenta. Public memorials of the alliance with Rome10 Image and self-image of the Batavians; 11 Hercules and the construction of a Batavian identity in the context of the Roman empire; 12 Conclusion and epilogue; Abbreviations; Bibliography; General index
