Performing the Sacra priestly roles and their organisation in Roman Britain
"Performing the Sacra: Priestly roles and their organisation in Roman Britain' addresses a range of cultural responses to the Roman conquest of Britain with regard to priestly roles. The approach is based on current theoretical trends focussing on dynamics of adaptation, multiculturalism,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.,
[2019]
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| Series: | Archaeopress Roman archaeology ;
53. Archaeopress archaeology. |
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| Online Access: | https://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/2023/EBSCO/2273981.pdf |
| Summary: | "Performing the Sacra: Priestly roles and their organisation in Roman Britain' addresses a range of cultural responses to the Roman conquest of Britain with regard to priestly roles. The approach is based on current theoretical trends focussing on dynamics of adaptation, multiculturalism, and appropriation and discarding a sharp distinction between local and Roman cults. The perspective is shifted from a centre-periphery model towards a spectrum of cultural responses. The book investigates a wide range of published and unpublished evidence to examine three main themes: a model of priesthood organisation, the embodiment of priestly authorities in a provincial environment, and how the different depositional contexts of priestly regalia contribute to our understanding of these roles. Previous accounts of this type of evidence from Britain has often linked the objects to local cults, for being somehow specific to the province. This was based on a limited search for comparisons among the evidence from other areas of the Roman world, both in terms of the individual objects and of the overall priestly organisation. Here, a methodical investigation of objects identifiable as priestly regalia and ceremonial tools was integrated into an assessment of historical, epigraphic, and iconographic sources."--Back cover |
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| Item Description: | "This publication is the revised and updated version of my doctoral dissertation completed in January 2018 at King's College London. The original title Performing the ritual : a study of religious performers and their activities in Roman Britain"--Page vii |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 174 pages) illustrations (some color), color maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-174). |
| ISBN: | 1789690986 9781789690989 |