Recycling the Roman Villa
Material Salvage and the Medieval Circular Economy
Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-47558-7 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-47558-7 (ISBN)
Beth Munro offers a retrospective study of the material value of and deconstruction processes at villas. She explores the technical properties of materials that were most frequently recycled, glass, metals, and limestone, the craftspeople who undertook this work, as well as the economic and culture drivers of recycling.
Though abandoned between the third and seventh centuries CE, many Roman villas enjoyed an afterlife in late antiquity as a source of building materials. Villa complexes currently serve as a unique archaeological setting in that their recycling phases are often better preserved than those at urban sites. Building on a foundational knowledge of Roman architecture and construction, Beth Munro offers a retrospective study of the material value of and deconstruction processes at villas. She explores the technical properties of glass, metals, and limestone, materials that were most frequently recycled; the craftspeople who undertook this work, as well as the economic and culture drivers of recycling. She also examines the commissioning landowners and their rural networks, especially as they relate to church construction. Bringing a multidisciplinary lens to recycling practices in antiquity, Munro proposes new theoretical and methodological approaches for assessing architectural salvage and reprocessing within the context of an ancient circular economy.
Though abandoned between the third and seventh centuries CE, many Roman villas enjoyed an afterlife in late antiquity as a source of building materials. Villa complexes currently serve as a unique archaeological setting in that their recycling phases are often better preserved than those at urban sites. Building on a foundational knowledge of Roman architecture and construction, Beth Munro offers a retrospective study of the material value of and deconstruction processes at villas. She explores the technical properties of glass, metals, and limestone, materials that were most frequently recycled; the craftspeople who undertook this work, as well as the economic and culture drivers of recycling. She also examines the commissioning landowners and their rural networks, especially as they relate to church construction. Bringing a multidisciplinary lens to recycling practices in antiquity, Munro proposes new theoretical and methodological approaches for assessing architectural salvage and reprocessing within the context of an ancient circular economy.
Beth Munro is a Research Associate at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She has held a Rome Award at the British School at Rome, as well as Canada Research Chair Post-doctoral Fellowship in Roman archaeology at the University of Manitoba.
List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Valuable villa architecture; 3. Villa decline and material salvage; 4. Materials organization and stockpiling for recycling; 5. Material reprocessing at villas; 6. Economics of villa recycling; 7. Post-roman ownership and legacy of villas in the western provinces; 8. Conclusions; Bibliography.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.10.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 731 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-47558-4 / 1009475584 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-47558-7 / 9781009475587 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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