【罗马史新书】身体地图、心灵地图：罗马世界的地理知识可视化

Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 115

A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind: Visualising Geographical Knowledge in the Roman World

By Iain Ferris

This study considers the relationship between geography and power in the Roman world, most particularly the visualisation of geographical knowledge in myriad forms of geography products: geographical treatises, histories, poems, personifications, landscape representations, images of barbarian peoples, maps, itineraries, and imported foodstuffs.

A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind is a study about the relationship between geography and power in the ancient Roman world, and most particularly about the visualisation of geographical knowledge in myriad forms of geography products, including geographical treatises, histories, poems, personifications, landscape representations, images of barbarian peoples, maps, itineraries, and imported foodstuffs. As Rome broke its political bounds and headed towards empire the whole city became the centre and the Roman world-view changed with it. The Roman state then needed to present to the Roman people an easily-digestible narrative about its imperial ambition and imperial possessions, in a way that went beyond the fact that servitude, enslavement, and misery for many underpinned this expansion. There needed to be a publicly-guided discourse centred around the smoothing out of difference, rather than its obliteration or elimination, and the presentation of many different lifeworlds in a familiar way using geographical information. This marked a way of directing how change could be managed and of reimagining how the world might be and might work at the intersection between selection, knowledge, and insight. Reflection and communication sought to create a communal sense of belonging. If not actually doors, these geographical images were at least windows onto self-identity and otherness, letting light in on a sombre struggle against accidie.

Contents

Preface

Chapter One: Maps of the Mind

Chapter Two: Strangers in a Strange Land

Chapter Three: Rome in Rome

Chapter Four: A River Without End

Chapter Five: Staged Designs

Chapter Six: Landscape and Desire

Chapter Seven: An Unseen Ruler

Chapter Eight: Maps of the Body

Chapter Nine: Moving Away from the Pulsebeat

Chapter Ten: Slouching Towards Empire

Notes

Bibliography

Appendix

Index

About the Author

Iain Ferris is an independent academic researcher and a former field archaeologist who has published three archaeological excavation monographs and ten books, the most recent of which Visions of the Roman North: Art and Identity in Northern Roman Britain was published by Archaeopress in 2021.

H 245 x W 174 mm

338 pages

130 figures (colour throughout)

Published Jun 2024

Archaeopress Archaeology

ISBN

Paperback: 9781803277813

Digital: 9781803277820

DOI 10.32028/9781803277813

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Keywords

Roman; Ancient Rome; Geography; Visualisation; Art

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