From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World: Papers in Honour of Janet DeLaine
From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World celebrates Janet De Laine's seminal work on Roman architecture and construction. One of the foremost scholars of the last decades, her pioneering research has offered important insights not only into individual structures in central Italy but also into the processes involved in creating ancient buildings. Her approach has provided important conceptual frameworks that have allowed scholars to understand Roman buildings in their proper social and economic contexts. The volume collects papers from an international conference held in Janet's honour at Wolfson College, Oxford, in January 2020. The various contributions focus on modelling the costs of construction over the course of 2,500 years, from Bronze Age Greece to the early Middle Ages. They discuss both broader issues of methodology and particular case studies, with particular attention to the effort needed in the different steps of architectural creation, such as the exploitation of raw materials (e.g. quarries), transport, and the construction processes on building sites. The papers not only cover a wide chronological and geographical area of the ancient world but also take up many of the themes explored by Janet throughout her career on Roman architecture, urbanism, building technologies, materials, and the principles of design. The wide range of papers reflects the scope and vibrancy of Janet's scholarship on Roman architecture and her enormous contribution to the discipline.
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From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World: Papers in Honour of Janet DeLaine
From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World celebrates Janet De Laine's seminal work on Roman architecture and construction. One of the foremost scholars of the last decades, her pioneering research has offered important insights not only into individual structures in central Italy but also into the processes involved in creating ancient buildings. Her approach has provided important conceptual frameworks that have allowed scholars to understand Roman buildings in their proper social and economic contexts. The volume collects papers from an international conference held in Janet's honour at Wolfson College, Oxford, in January 2020. The various contributions focus on modelling the costs of construction over the course of 2,500 years, from Bronze Age Greece to the early Middle Ages. They discuss both broader issues of methodology and particular case studies, with particular attention to the effort needed in the different steps of architectural creation, such as the exploitation of raw materials (e.g. quarries), transport, and the construction processes on building sites. The papers not only cover a wide chronological and geographical area of the ancient world but also take up many of the themes explored by Janet throughout her career on Roman architecture, urbanism, building technologies, materials, and the principles of design. The wide range of papers reflects the scope and vibrancy of Janet's scholarship on Roman architecture and her enormous contribution to the discipline.
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From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World: Papers in Honour of Janet DeLaine

From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World: Papers in Honour of Janet DeLaine

From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World: Papers in Honour of Janet DeLaine

From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World: Papers in Honour of Janet DeLaine

Overview

From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World celebrates Janet De Laine's seminal work on Roman architecture and construction. One of the foremost scholars of the last decades, her pioneering research has offered important insights not only into individual structures in central Italy but also into the processes involved in creating ancient buildings. Her approach has provided important conceptual frameworks that have allowed scholars to understand Roman buildings in their proper social and economic contexts. The volume collects papers from an international conference held in Janet's honour at Wolfson College, Oxford, in January 2020. The various contributions focus on modelling the costs of construction over the course of 2,500 years, from Bronze Age Greece to the early Middle Ages. They discuss both broader issues of methodology and particular case studies, with particular attention to the effort needed in the different steps of architectural creation, such as the exploitation of raw materials (e.g. quarries), transport, and the construction processes on building sites. The papers not only cover a wide chronological and geographical area of the ancient world but also take up many of the themes explored by Janet throughout her career on Roman architecture, urbanism, building technologies, materials, and the principles of design. The wide range of papers reflects the scope and vibrancy of Janet's scholarship on Roman architecture and her enormous contribution to the discipline.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789694222
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing
Publication date: 07/13/2023
Pages: 444
Product dimensions: 8.03(w) x 11.42(h) x (d)

About the Author

Simon J. Barker is a specialist in many aspects of the ancient world, including Roman architecture and the building industry, late antique urbanism, and recycling practices. An additional focus is the application of architectural energetics to questions of construction and the economy, with emphasis on the labour of stone-working and the cost of stone architectural decoration. Christopher Courault holds a Ph D from the University of Cordoba (Spain) with international mention (University of Edinburgh). He is a member of the research group Ciudades de Andalucia, and from 2017 he has been an associate researcher at the University of Geneva. His primary interest lies in the construction of city walls from the Republican to Islamic period. Javier A. Domingo holds a Ph D in Archaeology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona and has taught Christian Archaeology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome since 2014. His research and publications have focused on Roman and late Roman architectural decoration. Dominik Maschek has published widely on Roman archaeology, architecture and construction, including three monographs, four edited volumes and numerous peer-reviewed papers and book-chapters. He is the director of excavations at the Roman site of Carnuntum (Austria) and of a battlefield archaeology project at Fregellae (Italy).

Table of Contents

Preface. Visionary and Pragmatic: Studying the Nuts and Bolts of Roman Architecture - Simon Barker and Dominik Maschek 1. From Tenney Frank to Janet De Laine: Roman Architecture and Economic History - Dominik Maschek 2. Beyond Labour Figures: The 'Hidden' Costs of Stoneworking and their Application in Architectural Energetics - Simon J. Barker and Ben Russell 3. Reconstructing the Construction Process in Hispania: Epigraphy as a Source - Santiago Sanchez de la Parra Perez 4. Issues Arising from Inheritance Tax Applied to Testamentary Legacies: Legal Aspects of Estimating the Value of Roman Construction Projects - Grzegorz Jan Blicharz 5. Demolitions, Collapses, and the Control of the Housing Market in Rome - Marguerite Ronin 6. La construccion del poder omeya. Recursos, costes y ciclo productivo arquitectonico de Madinat al-Zahra' (The Construction of the Umayyad Power. Resources, Costs and Architectural Production Cycle of Madinat al-Zahra') - Eneko Lopez-Marigorta and Christopher Courault 7. How to Define the 'Status' of Stonemasons Employed in a Rock-Hewn Worksite in the Medieval Period: Reflexions and Hypotheses - Anais Lamesa and Michael Gervers 8. The Energetics of Earth and Turf Construction in the Roman World - J. Riley Snyder, Ben Russell, Tanja Romankiewicz, Christopher T.S. Beckett 9. Quarrying Megaliths in Heliopolis Baalbek (Lebanon) The Jupiter Temple and the Hajjar al Hibla Quarry - Jeanine Abdul Massih 10. Quarrying at Mons Claudianus Costs and Time as Organisational Concerns (?) - Alfred M. Hirt 11. From Extraction to Transport: Technical and Management Aspects of Quarries of Building Stone - Anna Gutierrez Garcia-M. 12. L'evoluzione costruttiva della "parte alta" di Tarraco in epoca romana: alcune osservazioni sulla costruzione del cosiddetto Foro Provinciale - Maria Serena Vinci 13. Labouring and Its Costs During the Aegean Late Bronze Age - Ann Brysbaert 14. Building Accounts, Monumental Construction Projects and Labour Rates in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods - Jari Pakkanen 15. On Toolmarks, Sequence of Carving and Labour Quantification in Roman Stone Carving: The Case of Heroon III at Miletus - Natalia Toma 16. Il Peristilio Inferiore della o Domus Augustanao sul Palatino: organizzazione del lavoro e calcolo dei costi di un'impresa imperiale - Francesca Caprioli, Alessandro Mortera, Patrizio Pensabene, Javier A. Domingo 17. Quantifying the Forum of Pompeii: Building Economics, Material, and Labour - Cathalin Recko 18. Pompeian Wall Painting in Figures: Labour and Materials - Francesca Bologna 19. The Amphitheatres of Regio X -Venetia et Histria: The Impact of Stone Supplying Cost on Ancient Construction Processes - Caterina Previato 20. Templi romani giganteschi in Asia Minore: Problemi di costi e di finanziamento - Paolo Barresi 21. Diocletian's Mausoleum in the Imperial Palace of Split. A Review of Its Architecture and an Estimate of Its Financial Cost. - Javier A. Domingo and Daniela Matetic Poljak
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