The sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire / Eleri H. Cousins.
Yer Numarası
A.IX/7868
ISBN
9781108493192 (hardback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
First published.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Fiziksel Niteleme
x, 228 sayfa : resim, çizim, harita, plan, tıpkıbasım, tablo ; 25 cm.
Dizi
Cambridge classical studies
Genel Not
İndeks s. 226-228.
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Bibliyografya s. 201-225.
İçindekiler Notu
Discovering Roman Bath -- From Bath to Aquae Sulis -- Experiencing Aquae Sulis -- Aquae Sulis and Empire -- Water from the Earth -- The Local Writ Large -- From Aquae Sulis to Bath.
Özet, vb.
“The Roman sanctuary at Bath has long been used in scholarship as an example par excellence of religious and artistic syncretisms in Roman Britain. With its monumental temple, baths, and hot springs, its status as one of the most significant Roman sites in the province is unquestioned. But our academic narratives about Roman Bath are also rooted in the narratives of our more recent past. This book begins by exploring how Georgian and Victorian antiquaries developed our modern story of a healing sanctuary at Roman Bath. It shows that a curative function for the sanctuary is in fact unsupported by the archaeological evidence. It then re-tells the story of Roman Bath by focusing on three interlinked aspects: the entanglement of the sanctuary with Roman imperialism, the role of the hot springs in the lives of worshipers, and Bath's place within the wider world of the western Roman Empire“ -- Yayıncı.
