(Not) All Roads Lead to Rome: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Mobility in the Ancient World
Access Archaeology Archaeopress A ccess Archaeology A (Not) all roads lead to Rome …

Mobility is a human practice that is culturally specific, and when we focus on Ancient Rome,
we are examining mobility in a large, preindustrial metropolis. Rome as a growing …

Focusing on routes and journeys throughout medieval Europe and the Middle East in the
period between Late Antiquity and the thirteenth century, this multi-disciplinary book draws …

The importance of mobility in early societies now no longer needs demonstration. Recent
work over the last decades has rendered obsolete the image of populations that are for the …

A recent encyclopedia article on land transport in the ancient world 1 surveys the problems
associated with travel and transport as realised in classical scholarship. It concentrates on …

The traditional consensus on travel was that it was something the élite were involved in, but
for the most part others remained in their place of residence as subsistence farmers. Such a …

If the Greeks had the reputation of aiming most happily in the founding of cities, in that they
aimed at beauty, strength of position, harbours, and productive soil, the Romans had the …

Recent work on the Mediterranean in antiquity has shown that the land masses bordering
the Mediterranean Sea had a particular geography that placed an emphasis on the …

The area which constituted medieval Latin Europe (see Introduction & Chapter 2) was
bound together internally, and to its neighbours, by travel and transport–by sea, rivers and …

Looking back in 1935, Walter Benjamin famously described the Paris of his exile as the
“Capital of the Nineteenth Century.” Had he written two centuries earlier, he might have …