This illuminating study offers a comprehensive analysis of the rural habitation in the northern provinces of the Roman empire, drawing on fieldwork from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France
This illuminating study offers a comprehensive analysis of the rural habitation in the northern provinces of the Roman empire. Transcending the traditional studies, the author traces developments in the organisation of settlement space and house building, drawing on fieldwork from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France. Thanks to the broad geographical and chronological framework, he sheds important new light on both local and regional patterns, turning the much-studied phenomenon of the Roman villa into a focal part of a more complex development.
Preface, 1 Introduction, 2 Data and Research, 3 Exploring Villa
Development, 4 Exploring the Social Villa, A Human Approach to Villa
Development, 5 Villa Development and the Organisation of Production, 6
Settling in a Changing World: A Synthesis, References, Appendix I
Diederick Habermehl is an archaeologist at VU University Amsterdam.