10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CENTURIATION»
Discover the use of
centuriation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
centuriation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome
Centuriation took place on a small scale from the 4th century BC. It was a means
of distributing land to settlers of colonies using a grid traced out on the ground.
Such land was normally ager publicus—state- owned land that had usually been
...
Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins, 2004
2
Augusto Augurio: Rerum Humanarum Et Divinarum Commentationes ...
Rerum Humanarum Et Divinarum Commentationes in Honorem Jerzy Linderski
Christoph F. Konrad. respect to a kardo maximus and a decumanus maxinius,
provides the earliest evidence and a terminus ante quem. Centuriation, it should
be ...
Christoph F. Konrad, 2004
3
Corinth, the Centenary, 1896-1996
Comparative Systems of Centuriation Roman land planning and systems of
centuriation are known from many parts of the Roman world. In Greece several
systems have been discovered and reported, including those at Dyme and
Patrae102 ...
Charles K. Williams, Nancy Bookidis, 2003
4
African Cultural Astronomy: Current Archaeoastronomy and ...
It is this cadastral survey of land into these squares which is known as
centuriation (Dilke, 1971). Evidence of centuriation has been found in northern
Italy, France, Netherlands, Great Britain, and a few other areas. In North Africa it
appears that ...
Jarita Charmian Holbrook, Rodney Medupe, Johnson O. Urama, 2008
Centuriation is mainly found in southern Gaul, with well-known examples around
Orange, Beziers and Narbonne. Very large areas were regularly apportioned,
usually on a square grid system, and for Orange we have the unique survival of ...
6
Becoming Roman?: Diverging Identities and Experiences in ...
It is difficult to date centuriation archaeologically. It is therefore usually associated
with historical events, such as road building, colonial foundations and citizenship
grants. Centuriation often pre-dated the establishment of a colony so that the ...
7
Villa Landscapes in the Roman North: Economy, Culture and ...
For the latter question, it is useful to first distinguish between centuriation and
cadastration.50 Centuriation refers to a Roman system of land division, marked in
the physical landscape and replacing an older pre-Roman division.We see ...
Nico Roymans, Ton Derks, 2011
8
The Laws of the Roman People: Public Law in the Expansion ...
Centuriation also served to standardize measurement, thus facilitating and
rationalizing the process of comparing output, hence the value, of different
parcels of land.88 It is relevant that the developing use and Roman production of
coinage, ...
Caroline Williamson, 2005
9
Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity
Virgil went on to explore this in verse in his Georgics, but prose farming
handbooks in particular offer an intriguing literary equivalent to centuriation's
agenda. The ostensibly practical handbook, with its overtly organizational and
didactic ...
10
Space in the Medieval West: Places, Territories, and ...
Further, because 68 isfour times 17, the Modenese bracciowas notonly
proportional tothe basic unit ofRoman centuriation, but acknowledged, in its
structure, thekey proportiontoRoman land surveying (thatis,the diagonal ofa
squareof sides ...
Dr Fanny Madeline, Dr Meredith Cohen, 2014
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CENTURIATION»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
centuriation is used in the context of the following news items.
655 - Enigma, Georgia: Mystery of the South's Circular Towns
Roman centuriation (dividing larger territorial units into squares) was an inspiration for what would become the US Land Survey System. «Big Think, Apr 14»
Apolline Project: new discoveries on the dark side of Vesuvius
Archaeological discoveries such as ancient ploughed fields, orchards, vineyards, and Roman centuriation grids demonstrate that in antiquity ... «Past Horizons Archaeology News, Mar 14»
Digging on the Dark Side of Vesuvius
Archaeologists have now discovered evidence of ancient ploughed fields, orchards, vineyards, and Roman centuriation grids, demonstrating ... «Popular Archaeology, Mar 14»
Fernand Braudel, Les Mémoires de la Méditerranée : une histoire à …
Un exemple éclairant de la fécondité de la méthode est l'étude de la centuriation romaine en tant qu'elle a profondément modelé le paysage français24. «Revues.org, Jul 13»
Traité d'archéogéographie – La crise des récits géohistoriques
La centuriation romaine (aussi traitée dans le chapitre 18) comme l'openfield system pour les médiévistes, serait fondatrice de son époque. Continuons avec le ... «Revues.org, Feb 12»
