Latin Inscriptions from Central Spain - Couverture rigide

Knapp, Robert C.

 
9780520097568: Latin Inscriptions from Central Spain
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0520097564 ISBN 13 : 9780520097568
Editeur : University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

Latin Inscriptions from Central Spain by Robert C. Knapp brings together, translates, and analyzes an extensive body of epigraphic material that illuminates the history and society of Hispania Tarraconensis and Lusitania. Drawing on inscriptions from cities, towns, and rural areas, Knapp reconstructs the lives of communities that flourished under Roman rule. The volume includes funerary epitaphs, honorific dedications, milestones, and religious texts, each annotated and contextualized to reveal the intertwining of local traditions with the broader imperial system. By systematically cataloging this evidence, Knapp opens a window onto the daily lives, beliefs, and identities of provincial populations, while also tracing patterns of Romanization in central Spain.

The work is both a reference tool and a historical narrative. It demonstrates how inscriptions preserve voices often absent from literary texts―soldiers, freedmen, women, and local elites―who together contributed to the dynamic cultural blend of the Roman provinces. Combining philological precision with historical interpretation, Knapp highlights the inscriptions’ linguistic features, their legal and social dimensions, and their role as public expressions of status and community. This volume thus serves as an essential resource for classicists, historians, archaeologists, and epigraphers, while also underscoring the vitality of epigraphy in reconstructing the complexity of life in the Roman West. 

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À propos de l?auteur

Robert C. Knapp is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. John D. Mac Isaac is Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion at Mary Washington College.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520097564
ISBN 13 
9780520097568
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
522
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Personne responsable
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