803 search results for “roman colonization” in the Public website
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empire of 2000 cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman Empire
The central aims of this project are to establish the shapes of the various urban hierarchies existing in the provinces of the Roman Empire and (especially) to use the quantitative properties of these hierarchies to shed new light on levels of economic integration.
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Ager Venusinus Project
The Ager Venusinus Project studies the relatively small number of recognized colonial dwellings dated securely to the period of colonization (i.e. the 3rd century BC). With a special interest in the Black Gloss ceramic typochronology
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Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins.
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the area to the south of the Meuse estuary during the Iron age and Roman period
An environmental and palaeo-economic reconstruction.
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Power in the Sands: A Monumental Desert Gateway to the Roman World at Udhruh (Jordan)
This project aims to excavate and date the setting of the east gate of the Roman fortress of Udhruḥ. This will be compared with other Diocletianic military installations from the region. We also hope to retrieve another gate inscription which can shed light on the function and political embedding of…
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The island of Skyros from Late Roman to Early Modern times
ASLU 28 Michalis Karambinis (2015)
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Tappino Area Archaeological Project (Molise)
The Tappino Area Archaeological Project aims to map and analyze ancient settlement patterns and dynamics in a small valley in Central-Southern Italy, in modern Molise (province of Campobasso). The first sites in the area date to the Bronze Age. In the Iron Age to Classical period, it was reportedly…
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Voorburg-Arentsburg: a Roman Harbour Town between Rhine and Meuse
In this publication the results of the analyses of the Roman harbour of Voorburg-Arentsburg (NL) are presented. This fully inclusive and integrated study of more than 1000 pages is published in two volumes. The publication is written in Dutch, but has got an extensive synthesis/summary in English.
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Visions of Rome. Strategic Appropriation of the Roman Heritage in Humanist Latin Poetry
This research project analyses the use of different, often competing, stereotypical images of Rome in Humanist Latin Poetry, by considering it as strategic appropriation of the classical heritage.
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Practice: a livelihood perspective of economic development in the post-Roman world.
Today’s socio-economic challenges aren’t new. In the centuries after the retreat of the Roman state people with different backgrounds and with different ways of life somehow managed to build and maintain a complex economic system in northern Gaul that would produce the ruling dynasties of Europe. By…
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Roman-Catholic reactions to Protestant 'moderns' in the Netherlands, 1840-1870
Ineke Smit defended her thesis on 17 September 2019
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Spatial patterns in landscape archaeology
This PhD project develops and applies a GIS procedure to use legacy survey data in settlement pattern analysis. As part of the research by the LERC project (NWO, Leiden University, KNIR), legacy data produced by surveys in central and southern Italy are examined in a comparative framework to investigate…
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Miko Flohr
Faculty of Humanities
m.flohr@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2753
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Classical Controversies: Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century
Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives – sometimes controversial – about Antiquity do people create for themselves at this moment in time, and…
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Roderick Geerts
Faculteit Archeologie
r.c.a.geerts@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3500
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Enargeia, Living Presence and Persuasion in Roman Rhetoric, Literature, Visual Art and Theatre
Subproject of
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Communal Dining in the Roman West: Private Munificence Towards Cities and Associations in the First Three Centuries AD
'Communal Dining in in the Roman West' explores why the practice of privately sponsored communal dining gained popularity in certain parts of the Western Roman Empire for almost 300 years.
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function of ‘Greek models’ within the process of innovation in Early Roman Drama
To what end and how does Plautus constantly underline the Helleni(sti)c provenance of his art? How does this aspect relate the author’s originality?
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Studying the pre-Roman Samnite people with an IRESMO research grant
In Spring next year, a new and international team of archaeologists, historians, and education experts will start a collaborative project on the archaeology of Molise. The project is generously funded by l’Istituto Regionale per gli Studi Storici del Molise “Vincenzo Cuoco” (IRESMO).
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Renaissance standardisation, systematisation, and unitisation of textura and roman type
This PhD-research is conducted to test the hypothesis that Gutenberg and consorts developed a standardised and even unitised system for the production of textura type, and that this system was extrapolated for the production of roman type in Renaissance Italy.
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Paul Meyboom
Faculteit Archeologie
p.g.p.meyboom@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1997
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Egypt and the Augustan Cultural Revolution
This book presents an archaeological overview of the presence and development of Egyptian material culture in the context of Augustan Rome.
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Why did wealthy Romans dine with whole cities?
In some parts of the Roman Empire public meals were the norm: the wealthy treated the whole city to a meal. This phenomenon that suddenly arose and disappeared just as quickly had to do with political and social developments, according to historian Shanshan Wen. PhD defence 6 September.
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Analysing Roman cities with an ERC Advanced Grant
How many cities were there actually in the Roman Empire? And why did some regions only have a few cities, while others consisted of a tight urban network? Luuk de Ligt, Professor of Ancient History, wants to know the answer to all these questions. With the ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million awarded to…
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Met de voeten in het water
Publication on the excavations at Roman fort Matilo in Leiden
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Hellenistic-Roman Sanctuary Excavations (S. Giovanni in Galdo, Colle Rimontato, Molise, Italy)
Rural cult places were of central importance in the non-urbanised areas of ancient Samnium, in central southern Italy. Their development, roles and functions in ancient society, however, remain important research questions. New excavations at one of these sanctuaries, the rural temple of S. Giovanni…
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Analysing Roman cities with an ERC Advanced Grant
How many cities were there actually in the Roman Empire? And why did some regions only have a few cities, while others consisted of a tight urban network? Luuk de Ligt, Professor of Ancient History, wants to know the answer to all these questions. With the ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million awarded to…
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Exploring Roman Portugal with Regato grant
The ancient Roman province of Lusitania, more or less contemporary Portugal, has been the focus of a joint research project by Leiden University, Évora University and the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. The research project has now been provided with a new boost by a large Regato grant managed…
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Roman Political Culture. Seven Studies of the Senate and City Councils of Italy from the First to the Sixth Century AD
This volume offers an innovative analysis of Roman political culture in Italy from the first to the sixth century AD on the basis of seven case studies.
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The Economy of Pompeii
This volume presents fourteen papers by Roman archaeologists and historians discussing approaches to the economic history of Pompeii, and the role of the Pompeian evidence in debates about the Roman economy.
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Hoard of Roman coins turns out to be offering for safe crossing
Several years ago, two amateur archaeologists from Brabant discovered over a hundred Roman coins near to Berlicum in the north of the province. After years of research, it now appears that the location, close to a ford in the river, was a site for offerings. Another interesting fact is that the coins…
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Liquid footprints
The present study explores the role of water in the ancient Roman city of Ostia.In antiquity, Ostia was situated at the intersection of the Tiber River and the Mediterranean Sea, and acted as one of the harbour cities of Rome for several centuries.This study investigates how water was acquired, used,…
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Thomas Kluitenburg
Faculty of Humanities
t.p.m.kluitenburg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8530
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Building tabernae
This project focuses on urban commercial space in Roman Italy and deals with the impact of economic growth on urban communities in the late Republic and the Imperial period (200 BCE – 300 CE).
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Excavation of Roman villa on Mallorca covered by Catalan and Spanish news outlets
The Villa Son Sard archaeological project aims to determine the boundaries of the Roman and post-Roman villa at Son Sard on Mallorca. While the team was excavating in the summer of 2023, several news outlets covered the findings.
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Egypt and the Augustan Cultural Revolution
As part of the VIDI 'Cultural innovation in a globalising society: Egypt in the Roman world', this research explores manifestations of Egypt in the material culture of Augustan Rome. This period was a crucial turning point for the urban landscape of Rome, which was characterised by cultural diversit…
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Field school in Portugal: Romans, drones and monasteries
Staff and students from the Faculty of Archaeology are just back from a newly started Field School in the inland of Portugal.
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Archaeologists find Roman camp near Ermelo
Archaeologists and students from Leiden University and local volunteers have found a Roman camp in the woods near Ermelo. The camp is four kilometres away from another Roman fortification discovered some time ago. This confirms the idea that the Romans would also often explore beyond the boundaries…
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Liquid Footprints
Water, Urbanism, and Sustainability in Roman Ostia
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Veni and NWO Free Competition grant for dr. Tesse Stek
Dr. Tesse Stek has been awarded a Veni and a Free Competition (within the Humanities field) grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for his research projects.
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Rural communities in the civitas Cananefatium 50-300 AD
This dissertation investigates the rural communities of the Cananefates in the period of 50 to 300 AD.
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2024 Congress of the Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores
Congress
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Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers
This book argues that the combined literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence supports the theory that early-imperial Italy had about six million inhabitants.
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Research Programme Colonial and Global History
The Colonial and Global History Research Programme of the Leiden University Institute for History combines a deep curiosity of transcultural processes such as imperialism, (de)colonization, and globalization with critical historical research on regional societies in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
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Ancient Roman cuisine was varied, international and accessible to all social classes
Banquets for the rich, porridge for the poor and a standard diet of bread, olive oil and wine. Just a few assumptions about the Roman diet.
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Paul Kloeg
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
p.kloeg@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1094
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Mark Driessen
Faculteit Archeologie
m.j.driessen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1756
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Rubicon for research into Roman law: ‘We don’t know what wider society thought about law’
Expert in Classics Renske Janssen has been awarded a Rubicon grant. She will use the grant to conduct research at the University of Edinburgh into how Roman law was perceived by society at the time.
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Digging for data: the rise and fall of a Miocene mammal biodiversity hotspot in the Vallès-Penedès (Catalonia, Spain)
The Vallesian, 11.1-9 Ma, was a special time in the Vallès-Penedes basin near Barcelona, where a biodiversity hotspot existed. Europe had a subtropical climate, with rhinos, forest giraffes, lions, hyenas, flying squirrels and primates.
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Luuk de Ligt
Faculty of Humanities
l.de.ligt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2669