The Global, the Local and the Glocal
Recent Approaches in Roman Archaeology
The Global, the Local and the Glocal
Recent Approaches in Roman Archaeology
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This volume explores the impact of Rome's globalizing empire upon identity and visual culture in its western and eastern provinces. It focuses particularly on the realities of glocal identities, the interconnectivity between people, ideas and technology, and the diverse and uniting nature of the empire.
The issue of how identities are shaped and remoulded by Roman conquest, and by the aftermath of empire, are central to contemporary debates across the disciplines of classical archaeology and ancient history. The theoretical framework of glocalization offers a starting point for nuanced discussion through its exploration of the adaptation of a global phenomenon to local realities. Informed by this innovative paradigm and drawing on a wide array of sources, the chapters in this volume range across iconography, religion, settlements, imperial power and identities. Together they investigate the ways in which local actors engaged with imperial structures, and how this phenomenon varied across the different provinces.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Ancient Sources
1. Introduction Rubén Montoya González (IE University, Spain); Lukasz Sokolowski (Art History Institute, Italy); Francesca Mazzilli (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
2. Phoenician Memories in Hispania: Identity and Integration Across the (Local) Past and (Global) Present Francisco Machuca Prieto (Malaga University, Spain)
3. Glocalization in Peasant Communities of Central Roman Spain: Exploring Consumption Patterns Using Network Science Fernando Moreno-Navarro (Roma Tre University, Italy)
4. Location, Glocation, Dislocation, Wave, Fracture. Portraiture, Inscriptions and Arts of Roman Syria as the Products of Glocalization Lukasz Sokolowski (Art History Institute, Italy)
5. Apotropaic Display in the Rural Domestic Architecture of Roman Syria's Dead Cities: A Glocalization Study Dianne van de Zande (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
6. Glocalization and Roman Religious Communication in the Danubian Provinces Csaba Szabo (University of Szeged, Hungary)
7. Re-Syrianizing Jupiter Dolichenus: Heliopolitanus and Commagenus as the Glocal Intersections in the Danubian Limes Lorena Perez Yarza (University of Warsaw, Poland)
8. Global or Glocal? Considering the Role of Religious Collegia in Shaping the Roman North-West Alessandra Esposito (Kings College London, UK)
9. Concluding Remarks Valentino Gasparini (Charles III University of Madrid, Spain,)
Product details
| Published | 05 Feb 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781350398429 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 31 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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