The urbanization of the North-Western provinces of the Roman Empire : a juridical and functional approach to town life in Roman Gaul, Germania inferior and Britain

Pellegrino, F. (2018)

Doctoral Thesis

This monograph investigates the development of urbanism in the North-Western Roman provinces (i.e. nowadays France, Britain, Belgium, and Netherlands), the main foci being on the nature, characteristics, and shapes that settlement systems took during the first 250 years of the imperial period. The scope of the research undertaken in this book extends beyond the study of the “official” Roman cities (i.e. centres which enjoyed some level of self-governance and which are known from ancient literary and epigraphic sources), comprising all settlements which have yielded evidence of monumental architecture and/or of extensive non-agricultural activities.

• Roman city
• Ancient urbanism
• Settlement patterns
• Iron Age
• Roman Gaul
• Roman Britain
• Roman economy
• Roman provinces
• Roman west

• All authors: Pellegrino, F.
• Supervisor: Bintliff, J.; Ligt, L. de
• Committee: Hoppenbrouwers, P.C.M.; Schrover, M.L.J.C.; Roymans, N.G.A.M.; Naerebout, F.G.; Bruin, J. de
• Qualification: Doctor (dr.)
• Awarding Institution: Institute for history, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University
• Date: 2018-10-17