Settling in a Changing World : Villa Development in the Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- 1.1 General -- 1.2 Geographical and chronological framework -- 1.3 View on villa and settlement -- 1.4 An interpretative framework -- 1.5 Structure of this study -- 2. Data and Research -- 2.1 Constructing a dataset -- 2.2 Basic characteristics: size and distribution -- 2.3 The research background -- 2.4 Representativity and biases -- 2.5 Questioning the dataset: house architecture, settlement layout, and regional differentiation -- 3. Exploring Villa Development -- 3.1 Changing perspectives on villa development -- 3.2 Exploring settlement development trajectories -- 3.3 Developments in house building: exploring architectural change -- 3.4 Villa development between continuity and change -- 4. Exploring the Social Villa. A Human Approach to Villa Deveopment -- 4.1 The social study of villas -- 4.2 Variation in settlement scale -- 4.3 The reorganisation of space: constructing new social realities -- 4.4 Breaking with the old and building the new: social strategies in a changing world -- 4.5 Local and regional heterogeneity and the nature of asymmetrical social relationships within settlements -- 4.6 Some concluding thoughts -- 5. Villa Developments and the Organisation of Production -- 5.1 The wider context of economic developments in the countryside -- 5.2 Market orientation and developments in agrarian production -- 5.3 Exploring the spatial architectural and social dimensions of production -- 5.4 Regional differentiation: nunancing the 'villa mode of production' -- 6. Settling in a Changing World: A Synthesis -- 6.1 Reconstructing development trajectories -- 6.2 Interpreting development trajectories from a multi-dimensional approach -- 6.3 Interpreting villa development as a process of change: 'becoming Roman'? -- 6.4 Avenues for future research -- References -- Appendix I. Site Catalogue.

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