Historical culture in Iron Age Italy : archaeology, history, and the use of the past, 900-300 BCE / Seth Bernard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernard, Seth (Classicist), author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iron age--Italy.

Iron age.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Italy--History--To 476--Historiography.

Italy.

Historiography.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xviii, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"This book describes the historical culture of Italy from the Early Iron Age to the Roman conquest, covering a period from roughly 900 - 300 BCE. By historical culture, I refer throughout to a broader concept of social engagement with the past than is sometimes meant by the word "history." But this move permits us, following Sahlins' suggestion, to consider all kinds of new things. There exists a substantial corpus of material, much of it archaeological, some of it newly discovered, which speaks to us about how local communities in early Italy thought and talked about their history and how they articulated their past and present. This material has yet to have much impact on the typical ways in which we reconstruct the process of "becoming historical" in Italy. Instead, the story tends to be told almost exclusively from the Roman perspective and in a teleology"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Bernard, Seth (Classicist). Historical culture in Iron Age Italy

ISBN:

9780197647462

0197647464

OCLC:

1376496541

Publisher Number:

99994705166