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Rome and the Colonial City
Get PDFAccording to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman
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Foundational grids and urban communities in the Iberian Peninsula in antiquity and the Middle Ages
Get PDFThe imposition of Roman forms of urbanism in the Iberian Peninsula during the Republican period resulted in the extension of the street grid. This orthogonal arrangement of the urban space was an easy way to distribute and allot municipal plots to settlers. Because of this connection between grids and Roman foundations, the general perceptions has been that grids equal Romanness and the lack thereof equals barbarism (in any shape or form: Visigothic, Islamic, or else). In this paper I want to look at examples of city (Mérida, Córdoba, Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Lisbon) whose inhabitants in Roman contexts ignored street alignments and respected them in non-Romans phases. These range from partial encroachment of private houses on porticoes in imperial Mérida to the construction of the Great Mosque of Córdoba and the foundation of the new city of Reccopolis. It will be clear that simply because grids appear first in Roman imperial contexts they are not necessarily seen as an essential Roman component of the city by townsfolk in Classical and Late Antiquity. Grids were easy starting points from which to develop a city; they gave an initial structure, but sticking to it is not essentially Roman in the same way that ignoring it is typically anti-Roman. Orthogonal street systems were not rigid grates, they are closer to gridded paper: a useful guideline to keep it tidy, but not a limiting impositio
Rome and the Colonial City
Get PDFAccording to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, spread across the New World in new colonial cities. This book explores the shortcomings of that all too colonialist narrative and offers new perspectives. It explores the ideals articulated both by ancient city founders and their modern successors; it looks at new evidence for Roman colonial foundations to reassess their aims; and it looks at the many ways post-Roman urbanism looked back to the Roman model with a constant re-appropriation of the idea of the Roman
Ruling the realm: Sovereign spaces and the spatial ordering of medieval towns
No full textHow was political authority exercised spatially? This is a question at the heart ofthis exploration of the relationship between ruler and ruled in medieval England.With a focus on the reign of Edward I, king of England (1272–1307), the aim here isto consider how a ruler ruled the realm not just by force, military might or divineauthority, but through spatial administration of land and the people that constituted the realm
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Ancient cities in new worlds: Neo-Latin views and Classical ideals in the sixteenth century
Get PDFWhat follows will begin by introducing the two writers who are our subjects (Peter Martyr d'Anghleria and Francisco Cervantes de Salazar) before we consider their varied approaches to the indigenous settlements of the Caribbean and Mesoamerica. Their accounts of these villages and cities will then be contrasted with their depictions of Spanish urban foundations. This examination reveals how the Roman colonial city could be used to understand the cities of the New World and to model Spanish imperialism in these lands. This in turn demonstrates the usefulness of the ancient city as a tool for thinking about colonial cities in later centurie
Ruling the realm: Sovereign spaces and the spatial ordering of medieval towns
No full textHow was political authority exercised spatially? This is a question at the heart ofthis exploration of the relationship between ruler and ruled in medieval England.With a focus on the reign of Edward I, king of England (1272–1307), the aim here isto consider how a ruler ruled the realm not just by force, military might or divineauthority, but through spatial administration of land and the people that constituted the realm
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