Hadrian's Wall
A Life
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 September 2015
- ISBN 9780198707028
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 234x158x23 mm
- Weight 642 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 109 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
In Hadrian's Wall: A Life, Hingley addresses the post-Roman history of Hadrian's Wall, and considers the ways in which the monument has been imagined, represented, and researched from the sixth century to the internet era. With over 100 images, it discusses the significant political, cultural, and religious role the Wall has played over the years.
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In Hadrian's Wall: A Life, Richard Hingley addresses the post-Roman history of this world-famous ancient monument. Constructed on the orders of the emperor Hadrian during the 120s AD, the Wall was maintained for almost three centuries before ceasing to operate as a Roman frontier during the fifth century. The scale and complexity of Hadrian's Wall makes it one of the most important ancient monuments in the British Isles. It is the most well-preserved of the frontier works that once defined the Roman Empire.
While the Wall is famous as a Roman construct, its monumental physical structure did not suddenly cease to exist in the fifth century. This volume explores the after-life of Hadrian's Wall and considers the ways it has been imagined, represented, and researched from the sixth century to the internet. The sixteen chapters, illustrated with over 100 images, show the changing manner in which the Wall has been conceived and the significant role it has played in imagining the identity of the English, including its appropriation as symbolic boundary between England and Scotland. Hingley discusses the transforming political, cultural, and religious significance of the Wall during this entire period and addresses the ways in which scholars and artists have been inspired by the monument over the years.
[a] lively and richly comprehensive account of the way the Wall has been perceived.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
A Living Wall
Hadrian's Wall
Part One: Picts' Wall
Heavenfield: Christian Inspirations
Lanercost Priory: The Wall and the English Border
Ellenborough (Maryport): Recognizing Roman Civility in the border landscape
Part Two: the Roman Wall
Castlesteads: Reviving Interest in the Wall
Newcastle and Carlisle: Reconstructing the Roman Wall
The Mithraeum at Borcovicium (Housesteads): Reasons to be Cheerful?
Wallington Hall: Native Troops on the Wall
The Clayton Wall: 'A New Era of Antiquarian Research'
Part Three: Hadrian's Wall
The Roman Gate at Hunnum (Halton Chesters): Ethnographic Time
Birdoswald: Scientific Archaeology
Whin Sill: Defending Ancient Springs
The Gateway at South Shields: the Romanization of Tyneside
The Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail: the Inclusive Monument
Conclusions: The Archaeological Imagination
Appendix 1: Published accounts of the Wall
Table 1: Hadrian's Wall: A timeline
Bibliography
Index
