【罗马史新书】罗马行省，公元前300年至公元300年：以硬币为资料来源

The Roman Provinces, 300 BCE–300 CE

Using Coins as Sources

TEXTBOOK

Part of Guides to the Coinage of the Ancient World

AUTHOR: Andrew Burnett, British Museum, London

PUBLICATION PLANNED FOR: June 2024

AVAILABILITY: Not yet published - available from June 2024 

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781009420136

Provincial coinage gives us a unique insight into the Roman world, reflecting the values and concerns of the elites of the many hundreds of cities in the Roman empire. Coins offer a very different perspective from written history, which usually represents the views of the senatorial class, and which was usually composed long after the events that are described. The coins, in contrast, provide evidence without hindsight, and uniquely allow a systematic examination across the whole Roman world. This volume makes it possible for instructors and students and scholars to deploy a complex set of material evidence on many historical topics. It includes over two hundred illustrations of coins with detailed captions, so providing a convenient sourcebook of the most important items, and covers topics such as the motivation for Roman conquest, the revolution of Augustus, the world of the Second Sophistic and the crisis of the third century.

Provides a clear and comprehensive narrative and good illustrations well described in the captions to enable students to grasp the historical potential of Roman provincial coinage

Employs a chronological structure in order to help students understand clearly the scope and historical development of Roman provincial coinage

Clearly explains for students the prevalence of inflation and the break-up of the Roman monetary system in the third century CE

Table of Contents

1. Precious metal coinages at Rome and in the provinces

2. The beginnings of an empire in Italy and the western Mediterranean (300–200 BCE)

3. The growth of an empire during the late Republic (200–31 BCE)

4. Whose coins? A model for city coinage in imperial times

5. The revolution of Augustus – and becoming more Roman in the first century CE

6. Reinforcing Greek identity in the Golden Age of the second century CE

7. 'From a kingdom of gold to one of iron and rust' in the third century CE.

Author

Andrew Burnett, British Museum, London

ANDREW BURNETT was Deputy Director of the British Museum from 2002 to 2013, having begun his career at the Museum in 1974 in the Coins and Medals department as Research Assistant. He went on to become Deputy Keeper in 1990 and Keeper in 1992. He is a past President of the Royal Numismatic Society, the Roman Society, and of the International Numismatic Commission, and is currently an Honorary Research Associate at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. His main research interests are in the coinage of Roman Britain; the early Roman coinage of the third century BC; Roman provincial coinage; and the history of numismatics. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and has been awarded many prizes and honours for his publications.

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