Senses of the Empire: Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 1451392
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315608358
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781472446299
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Producing this volume involved complex, extended and multi-layered processes of creative investigation. The methodology was underpinned by a multidisciplinary theoretical framework drawn from philosophy, archaeology, ancient history, urban geography and architecture. Crucially, it was developed and validated through sensory archaeological fieldwork (survey, experimentation and data collection) conducted individually and collectively in the Marche, Puglia, Rome and Ostia. A large body of material housed in eight libraries and ten museums in four countries was analysed within this framework. The resulting argument was dependent on the completion of a lengthy period of analysis of the collected sensory data and source materials.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The concept for this book developed from Betts’ 2011 publication Towards a Multisensory Experience of Movement in the City of Rome. This volume, edited by Betts, originated in a conference Senses of the Empire: Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture, devised and organised by Betts, held at the Open University in 2013. The intellectual direction of the volume was conceived by Betts who, following presentations and collaborations in Umeå (Sweden) and Leiden (Netherlands), commissioned additional chapters from international scholars to create a coherent volume. Authors were chosen according to their ability to contribute to the development of multisensory methods and approaches in Roman archaeology and ancient history thereby establishing new research agendas. Betts’ three contributions to this volume contextualise the constituent parts of the volume, highlight their different perspectives and articulate the theoretical approaches and fieldwork methods that developed into the volume’s conceptual framework.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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