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Britons abroad : the mobility of Britons and the circulation of British-made objects in the Roman Empire
Britons abroad is a contribution to the study of ancient mobility in
the Roman Empire with the focus on the mobility of materials and people
and the ways objects and people interact dialectically when brought to a
new environment. This study looks at Britons who, voluntarily or
forcedly, moved overseas in the period of the first to third centuries
AD and identifies the ways one can use to trace their mobility. It also
explores the changes in the personal and communal identification as
expressed by Britons, who settled abroad, and tries to locate a unified
element in the (ethnic) identities when compared to those people who
stayed put with those who migrated. The exploration of ‘Britishness’
abroad in the Roman Empire is set out on a variety of levels: individual
(personal migration from Britain) and communal (the occurrence of
British military units abroad); human mobility and mobility of
artefacts; movement of British-born and Continental-born to and from
Britain. This research approaches the study of mobility and social
changes in moved communities through a province-by-province study of
archaeological sites and their assemblages but is not limited to the
physical borders of the Roman Empire.FdA – Publicaties niet-programma gebonde
Britons abroad : the mobility of Britons and the circulation of British-made objects in the Roman Empire
Britons abroad is a contribution to the study of ancient mobility in
the Roman Empire with the focus on the mobility of materials and people
and the ways objects and people interact dialectically when brought to a
new environment. This study looks at Britons who, voluntarily or
forcedly, moved overseas in the period of the first to third centuries
AD and identifies the ways one can use to trace their mobility. It also
explores the changes in the personal and communal identification as
expressed by Britons, who settled abroad, and tries to locate a unified
element in the (ethnic) identities when compared to those people who
stayed put with those who migrated. The exploration of ‘Britishness’
abroad in the Roman Empire is set out on a variety of levels: individual
(personal migration from Britain) and communal (the occurrence of
British military units abroad); human mobility and mobility of
artefacts; movement of British-born and Continental-born to and from
Britain. This research approaches the study of mobility and social
changes in moved communities through a province-by-province study of
archaeological sites and their assemblages but is not limited to the
physical borders of the Roman Empire.</table