Cult places and cultural change in Republican Italy a contextual approach to religious aspects of rural society after the Roman conquest
This study throws new light on the Roman impact on Italic religious structures in the last four centuries BC and, more generally, on the complex processes of change and accommodation set in motion by the Roman expansion in Italy. Cult places had a pivotal function among the various 'Italic'...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
©2009, 2009
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| Series: | Amsterdam Archaeological Studies
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Rome and Italy : ideas on cultural change
- 'Religious Romanisation' and the fate of Italic rural sancturaries
- Samnium : the sacred construction of community and architectural forms
- Location and function of Italic sancturaries in society : three models
- Landscape of the sacred : contextualising the Samnite sanctuary of S. Giovanni in Galdo, Colle Rimontato (CB)
- Roman sacred landscapes? the pagus-vicus system revised
- Cult and colonisation : pagi, vici and sanctuaries
- Roman ritual in the Italian countryside? The Paginalia and the Lustratio pagi
- Roman ritual in the Italian countryside? The Compitalia and the shrines of the Lares Compitales
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-255) and index