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Presenting the Romans : interpreting the frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site

Title
Presenting the Romans : interpreting the frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site / edited by Nigel Mills.
Publication
Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors
Mills, Nigel, 1957-
Description
x, 204 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Summary
This volume explores the issues and the use of best practice interpretation principles in bringing the Roman world to life for visitors and educational users.
Series Statement
Heritage matters
Uniform Title
Heritage matters series ; v. 12.
Subject
  • 30 B.C.-476 A.D
  • 31 f. Kr.-476 e. Kr. (kejsartiden)
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Interpretive programs
  • Antiquities > Interpretive programs
  • Limes (Roman boundary)
  • Society
  • Antiquities
  • Befestigung
  • Welterbe
  • Interpretation
  • Darstellung
  • Präsentation
  • Utgrävningar
  • Gränser
  • Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D
  • Rome > Antiquities
  • Hadrian's Wall (England)
  • England > Hadrian's Wall
  • Rome (Empire)
  • Römisches Reich
  • Hadrianswall
  • Limes
  • Hadrianus mur
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibiographical references and index.
Contents
  • Tradition and innovation : creating a new handbook to the Roman Wall -- Re-enactment and living history -- issues about authenticity -- Reconstruction drawings : illustrating the evidence -- Images from the past : fibulae as evidence for the architectural appearance of Roman fort gates -- Multimedia interpretation techniques for reconstructing the Roman Past at the Limes Museum in Aalen and at the Limes in Baden-Württemberg -- Vindonissa : changing presentations of a Roman legionary fortress -- Bringing to life the ancient city of Viminacium on the Danube -- An international view of reconstruction
  • A Roman museum for Vienna -- Woerden -- Hoochwoert (Dutch Limes) : showing the invisible -- Mainlimes mobil : presenting archaeology and museums with the help of smartphones -- Voices from the past : presenting (re)constructed environments through multimedia technologies -- Digital reconstruction and the public interpretation of frontiers -- Information, disinformation and downright lies : portraying the Romans -- Romanes eunt Domus? -- The living frontier : the passing of time on Hadrian's Wall -- The Hadrian's Wall interpretation framework : audience research -- The Hadrian's Wall interpretation framework -- Applying the Hadrian's Wall interpretation framework.
ISBN
  • 9781843838470
  • 1843838478
  • 178204115X
  • 9781782041153
LCCN
2012533369
OCLC
  • ocn835973509
  • 835973509
  • SCSB-9764875
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library