Recovering Roman Britain: researches and readings

我的项目包括完成一本书的写作，名为“恢复罗马不列颠，研究和阅读”。这本书将于明年由牛津大学出版社出版。在与出版商讨论后，书名被修改为“重新发现罗马不列颠；一个富饶的殖民地。这本书探讨了古典文本和物质文化的影响，对立即前罗马和罗马过去的英国的看法。它构成了越来越多的跨学科关注的一部分，即研究英国过去的帝国背景。每个时代都以与当前利益和关切相关的方式解释罗马帝国。一个主流观点认为，罗马人把地中海文化“文明”带给了北欧的“野蛮人”，包括英国人。人们认为，这种外来文化一方面包括强加的和平、秩序、城市生活、有组织的洗浴和基督教，另一方面包括专制、奴役和文化统治。长期以来，从这些截然不同的观点中衍生出来的观点，被证明是“西方”国家人民及其文化（包括英国人民）的神话起源的基本方式，已经被想象和解释（见R. Hingley[主编]2001年罗马图像的文章）。这些想法被用来表达土著人（皮克特人、凯尔特人等）固有的自由，或者罗马给英国带来的秩序和“文明”的对比画面。在不同的时期，人们强调了过去的不同方面。例如，在伊丽莎白一世和詹姆斯一世的统治下，罗马不列颠被认为是民族认同的祖先来源，通过不列颠尼亚省的前统一来想象；在19世纪，罗马不列颠为军事控制和海外领土的同化提供了思想来源；今天，人们接受了诸如“罗马人为我们做了什么”之类的观点。在我的新书中，包括威廉·卡姆登、威廉·罗伊、塞缪尔·莱森和弗朗西斯·哈弗菲尔德在内的古物学家和考古学家的作品通过一个主题框架进行了研究，该框架探讨了罗马人的接触和征服给低地的英国人带来了文明（文明行为/有序的政府），同时将英国北部和西部的“野蛮人”人口排除在殖民控制的利益之外。另一种相反的传统也被探讨，即边缘人口积极而勇敢地抵抗罗马人的控制和随之而来的奴役。这本书还讨论了如何将英国古代和古典过去的知识转化为征服和控制爱尔兰，苏格兰，北美和印度的文明话语的基础，利用英国的前殖民地地位来证明对英国和海外领土的控制是合理的。从这一角度研究了罗马文明化的思想以及边疆、堡垒、别墅和罗马城市的目的和性质。更改后，您将在系统不活动20分钟后自动注销。无法检测到在文本框中键入内容

My project involved the completion of the writing of a book entitled 'Recovering Roman Britain, researches and readings'. This work is to be published by Oxford University Press during the next year. After discussion with the publishers, the title has been revised to 'The Rediscovery of Roman Britain; A Colony so fertile'.This book explores the impact of classical texts and material culture on perceptions of the immediately pre-Roman and Roman past of Britain. It forms part of an increasingly cross-disciplinary focus on the imperial context of studies of the British past. Each age has interpreted the Roman Empire in ways that relate to current interests & concerns. One dominant idea, which remains significant today, is that the Romans brought Mediterranean culture 'civilization' to 'barbarian' people in northern Europe, including Britain. This imported culture is felt to have included, on one hand, imposed peace, order, urban life, organised bathing and Christianity and, on the other, despotism, enslavement and cultural domination. Ideas derived from these contrasting perspectives have long proved fundamental in the ways that the mythical origins of the people of 'Western' nations and their cultures, including the people of Britain, have been imagined and interpreted (see articles in R. Hingley [ed.] 2001 Images of Rome). Such ideas have been used to express contrasting pictures of the inherent freedom of native peoples (Picts, Celts, etc) or the order and 'civilization' brought to Britain by Rome. At various times, different aspects of the past have been stressed. For example, under Elizabeth I and James I, Roman Britain was projected as an ancestral source for national identity, imagined through the former unity of the province of Britannia; during the C19, Roman Britain provided a source of ideas for the military control and assimilation of territories overseas; today people adopt ideas such as 'What the Romans did for us'. In my new book, the works of antiquarians and archaeologists - including William Camden, William Roy, Samuel Lysons and Francis Haverfeld - are studied through a thematic framework which explores the idea that Roman contact and conquest brought civility (civilized behaviour / ordered government) to the lowland Britons, while excluding the 'barbarian' populations of northern and western Britain from the benefits of colonial control. An opposing tradition is also explored, that the peripheralized populations actively and valiantly resisted Roman control and the consequential introduction of servility.The book also addressed the ways that transforming knowledge of the ancient and classical past of Britain was used as the foundation for a civilizing discourse in the conquest and control of Ireland, Scotland, North America and India, drawing on the former colonial status of Britain to justify the control of territories in Britain and overseas. Ideas about civility Romanization and the purpose and nature of the frontiers, forts, villas and Roman cities are studied from this perspective. Changes you will be logged out automatically after twenty minutes of system inactivity. Typing in a text box is not detectable