Colonial landscapes : demography, settlement organization and impact of colonies founded by Rome (4th-2nd centuries BC)

Pelgrom, J. (2012)

Doctoral Thesis

In conventional models, the Roman colonial countryside has been characterized as consisting of rigid systems of land division and a dense network of isolated, mono-nuclear peasant farms which were situated at regular intervals from each other. Yet, the evidence on which the conventional model of colonial settlement organization is based is very fragile. This book, therefore, critically re-examines the traditional understanding of colonial rural organization, focusing especially on issues of population density, land division, settlement organization and geo-political arrangements.

• Settlement organization
• Roman Italy
• Roman demography
• Roman colonization
• Land division
• Field survey

• All authors: Pelgrom, J.
• Supervisor: Ligt, L. de
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University
• Date: 2012-01-12
• Court: LEI Universiteit Leiden
• Sponsorship: This programme was funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). I received additional funding from the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) and from the Leiden University Fund (LUF).