Northern Italy in the Roman World: From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity

255 Pages·2018·2.04 MB·English

by  Carolynn E. Roncaglia

Northern Italy in the Roman World
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Northern Italy
in the Roman World
From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity
Carolynn E. Roncaglia
Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Abbreviations xvii
A Note on Geography and Names xix
part i: The Creation of Northern Italy
1 Northern Italy before the Romans 3
2 The Roman Conquest 19
3 Citizenship and Identity 39
part ii: Northern Italy in the Roman World
4 Governing Northern Italy 63
5 Novum Comum 75
6 The Tanaro Valley and Italian Networks 89
7 Aquileia and Imperial Networks 101
part iii: Northern Italy beyond the Romans
8 Late Antique Transformations 119
Notes 145
Bibliography 191
Index 223
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Figures and Tables
figures
1 Northern Italy during the Bronze Age 5
2 Northern Italy during the Iron Age 11
3 Roman Northern Italy 20
4 Stele from Vercelli 42
5 Venetic Inscription from via Acquette 47
6 Porta Borsari, Verona 58
7 Roman Capitolium, Brescia 59
8 Fragment of the Great Pliny Inscription 85
9 Roman Funerary Stele from Mediolanum 96
10 Detail of Roman Funerary Stele from Mediolanum 97
11 Surviving Section of River Port of Aquileia 111
12 Northern Italy in Late Antiquity 121
13 Detail of Mosaic from Sant’Apollinare Nuovo 138
14 Roman Funerary Monument in Santa Maria Antica 142
tables
1 Northern Italians in Noricum, Pannonia, Moesia, and Dacia 108
2 Resident Aliens at Aquileia 114