List of Figures Preface Introduction 1. Rites of Passage on the Thames in the Iron Age 2. A place of trade: Londinium from AD 45 to AD 60 3. Boudica and Londinium in AD 60 4. Re-establishing urban order from AD 60 to 70 5. Londinium from AD 70 to AD 120 6. Hadrianic fires 7. Londinium’s peak of development from AD 125 to AD 200 8. Third century stability 9. Endings and beginnings Conclusion. Beginnings and endings Appendix. Site codes and names for excavations discussed in the text Bibliography Index
The new standard work on Roman London from a world expert, fully illustrated with maps and plans.
Richard Hingley is Professor of Roman Archaeology at Durham University, UK, and the author of numerous books on Roman Britain, including Hadrian's Wall: A Life (2012), The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586 to 1906 (2008) and Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen (2005).
This book has long been needed … [A] successful selection of
structural, burial, and epigraphic evidence that serves to
illustrate a chronological narrative of the development of
Londinium.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
[T]his book will become the go-to book for researching Roman
London, to anchor and orientate, and to point toward the archives
and publications … it is the essential collation of recent research
that London has been crying out for. As a biography, we see
Londinium’s birth and questionable parentage, its troubled Boudican
infancy, then its maturity, and finally its economic wobbles as age
sets in.
*American Journal of Archaeology*
An impressive overview of present thought ... This briskly written
synthesis, packed with helpful plans, is a great overview of the
Roman town, and a handy launchpad for further reading about
specific sites.
*Current Archaeology*
The book has the feel of an intelligent directory, and will surely
be on the shelves of everyone remotely engaged with London's
archaeology.
*British Archaeology*
Well illustrated with helpful chapter summaries ... particularly
valuable is the author’s ability to cross traditional (and
restricting) boundaries and explore the archaeology in terms of its
social, commercial, political and religious significance ... All in
all an essential book for anyone studying, researching or just
enjoying Roman Britain, English and Roman history, Roman
archaeology or urban studies.
*Classics for All*
There has clearly been a significant amount of intensive research
and thorough reading for this book ... The detailed descriptions of
the form, location and chronology of the buildings of Londinium
during the period AD 70-120 is particularly notable ... [A]
detailed piece of work which has clearly involved much study.
*European Journal of Archaeology*
The virtue of Hingley's book is that it brings together a vast
quantity of information ... Hingley is to be congratulated: not for
writing the biography of Londinium, but for posing the right
questions and, hopefully, for enabling other authors and excavators
to stand on his shoulders, providing them with a clearer view from
the data mountain.
*Minerva*
An extraordinary achievement. Richard Hingley guides us expertly
through the remains of Roman Londinium, throwing light into the
archaeological shadows. This is the benchmark and springboard for
any future study.
*Michael Shanks, Professor of Classical Archaeology, Stanford
University, USA*
Londinium: A Biography is a substantial achievement and an
excellent guide to the city’s streets, buildings, cemeteries and
watercourses. It highlights the value and scope of the hard work
being done by the city’s archaeologists and demonstrates both the
feasibility and potential of ambitious synthetic work on the
resulting data … an invaluable aid to anyone approaching these
tasks.
*Brittania*
This book deserves to be read with attention: beyond the scholarly
information it provides and which makes London one of the
best-known Roman agglomerations in the West today … it offers a
remarkable explanatory model of the development of an ancient city,
far removed from the worn out patterns that still too often
structure our thinking … This brilliant work should therefore
appear in all libraries interested in Roman Antiquity.
*Revue des Etudes Anciennes (Bloomsbury Translation)*
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