Shaping Roman Britain

Frontiers and Borderlands

Andrew Gardner (Author)

Open Access

Shaping Roman Britain

Frontiers and Borderlands

Andrew Gardner (Author)

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This open access book is a new and important account of the part the frontiers played in developing the culture and society of Roman Britain.

The archaeology of Roman Britain is often seen as divided into two different worlds: the military frontier zones of the periphery and the civilian provincial core. In reality, these were closely connected areas. Andrew Gardner offers a new theoretical approach, using Border Studies to analyze the development of Roman-British society, and shows that it needs to be understood as an integrated whole, interconnected with the wider Empire and the regions outside of the frontiers.

Gardner explores how the three major frontier zones of Roman Britain were dynamic borderlands, examining the threads of economic, political and cultural connections along and across these zones. The shaping of Roman Britain over time is a microcosm of processes across the wider Empire, where the frontier regions became increasingly important, transforming the culture of the Empire, and at the same time driving the process of fragmentation that led to the fall of the Western Empire. Looking at Britain in this way builds into a new narrative of the history of the Roman West.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University College London.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Frontiers and Borderlands in Comparative Perspective

1. The Western Frontier Zone: Sea and Settlers
2. The Northern Frontier Zone: Walls and Gateways
3. The South-Eastern Frontier Zone: Forts and Rivers
4. The Shaping of Roman Britain

Conclusion: Borderlands and Empire

Notes
References
Index

Product details

Published	Mar 18 2027
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Pages	208
ISBN	9781350467361
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations	20 bw illus
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Andrew Gardner

Andrew Gardner is Professor of the Archaeology of…

In this captivating book, Gardner systematically reconnects the military frontier regions of Roman Britain with the 'civil' areas of the province, challenging the traditional separation of these two fields of study. Gardner provides a detailed analysis of the peoples and cultures of the three frontier regions that delineated Britannia from its neighbours to the west, north and south-east. Theoretically adroit and data-rich, this book shapes the research agenda for the incorporation of Britain into the Roman Empire, from the time of Caesar's incursions to the end of Roman rule.

Richard Hingley, Durham University, UK
In this trailblazing archaeological analysis, Andrew Gardner gets to the heart of Roman Britain by rethinking its edges. Drawing on modern borderlands studies to illuminate the ancient frontiers of Britannia presents pressing implications for how we understand the nature of boundaries in the past and present.

Matthew Symonds, editor, Current World Archaeology magazine