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The frontier people of Roman Britain

Title: The frontier people of Roman Britain / by Peter Salway.
Author: Salway, Peter.
Publication: Cambridge [England] : University Press, ©1965.

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Description

xviii, 286 pages : maps (some folded), plans, 8 plates; 23 cm

Series Statement

Cambridge classical studies

Uniform Title

Cambridge classical studies

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History

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 261-274.

Contents

I. Introductory : Britain and Rome ; The frontier region ; The people and their settlements ; Vicus, canabae and consistentes ; The dating of the civil settlements -- II. The people: an analysis : The origins of the population ; Religion ; Officers' families ; The position of women ; Freedmen and slaves in the service of soldiers ; Trade and industry ; Veterans ; The Severan reform ; The status of soldiers' children ; Allotments of land to troops -- III. The civilian in his setting : The towns ; A port of supply ; Hadrian's Wall ; West of the Pennines ; The north-east ; Scotland and the Antonine Wall -- IV. Civil architecture in the frontier region : Houses and shops ; Official residences: mansiones ; Baths ; Temples and shrines -- V. The civil settlement and the imperial system : The rights and duties of the vicani ; The internal organization of the vicus ; The constitutional position of the civil settlements ; The military territorium ; The place of the vicus ; The third century: revolution and prosperity ; The four century and after -- Appendix : Inscriptions and sculptures relating to civilians.

ISBN

0521061873
9780521061872

LCCN

65024881

OCLC

ocm00916995
916995
SCSB-697517

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Princeton University Library