Britannia as Roman “Imperial Project”: Issues of Understanding, Prospects of Research

Key Points

Understanding of roman britain is limited by biases such as romanocentrism and elitism, affecting narratives.
Critiques point out flaws like teleological interpretation and lack of cultural context in romano-british studies.
Cultural interaction and economic aspects are addressed to better understand the continuity and discontinuity of heritage.
The paper calls for a reevaluation of roman conquest effects to enhance interpretations of britain's roman past.

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to summarize main criticisms towards the image of Roman Britain and Romano-British narratives that still dominate both academic field and popular opinion. They have several flaws which limit our understanding of Britain’s Roman past: teleological nature, dichotomies as the foundation, Romanocentrism, elitism, a habit of studying the region without cultural and spatial contexts. In order to overcome such flaws one, according to author, should look at several crucial issues of Romano-British history: the price and effects of Roman conquest, economical aspects of Roman Britain, cultural interaction and the problem of continuity/discontinuity of Roman heritage.

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Anton Baryshnikov (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68f02c7d616531447b5f9269 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18254/s207987840035943-6

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