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Imagining Roman Britain: Victorian Responses to a Roman Past

Imagining Roman Britain: Victorian Responses to a Roman Past

Hoselitz, Virginia

Paperback

Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New, Book 61

ArchaeologyAncient RomeBritish History

ISBN10: 0861933354
ISBN13: 9780861933358
Publisher: Royal Historical Soc
Published: Jun 18 2015
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
An examination of how the Roman past was perceived, and used, by Victorian Britain.

The authority of classical texts was challenged in the mid-Victorian era through the unearthing of a very different Rome in the material remains under British soil. Developments in archaeology created a new picture of Roman Britain as wealthy and civilized - an image which sat more comfortably with the Victorians' own changing view of empire as they themselves became an imperial power. Changing intellectual ideas ensured that the Roman heritage could nolonger be seen solely as the preserve of the classically educated upper class: excavating with a spade allowed a larger audience to participate and own the Roman past.

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