The Library
Tokens and social life in Roman Imperial Italy
Tools
Rowan, Clare (2023) Tokens and social life in Roman Imperial Italy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316516539
|
PDF
Tokens_and_Social_Life_in_Roman_Imperial_Italy.pdf - Published Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives 4.0. Download (10Mb) | Preview |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009030434
Abstract
Tokens are underutilised artefacts from the ancient world, but as everyday objects they were key in mediating human interactions. This book provides an accessible introduction to tokens from Roman Italy. It explores their role in the creation of imperial imagery, as well as what they can reveal about the numerous identities that existed in different communities within Rome and Ostia. It is clear that tokens carried imagery that was connected to the emotions and experiences of different festivals, and that they were designed to act upon their users to provoke particular reactions. Tokens bear many similarities to ancient Roman currency, but also possess important differences. The tokens of Roman Italy were objects used by a wide variety of groups for particular events or moments in time; their designs reveal experiences and individuals otherwise lost to history.
Item Type: | Book | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CJ Numismatics | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Tokens -- Rome -- History, Rome -- Social life and customs, Rome -- History -- Julio-Claudians, 30 B.C.-68 A.D., Italy -- History -- To 476. | ||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
ISBN: | 9781316516539 | ||||||
Book Title: | Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy | ||||||
Official Date: | November 2023 | ||||||
Dates: |
|
||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/9781009030434 | ||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 November 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 November 2023 | ||||||
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: |
|
||||||
Related URLs: |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year