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The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire
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ISBN: 9781108493192 9781108694735 9781108717458 110869473X 110849319X 1108586155 1108637396 1108717454 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge New York Melbourne [etc.] Cambridge University Press

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The Roman sanctuary at Bath has long been used in scholarship as an example par excellence of religious and artistic syncretisms in Roman Britain. With its monumental temple, baths, and hot springs, its status as one of the most significant Roman sites in the province is unquestioned. But our academic narratives about Roman Bath are also rooted in the narratives of our more recent past. This book begins by exploring how Georgian and Victorian antiquaries developed our modern story of a healing sanctuary at Roman Bath. It shows that a curative function for the sanctuary is in fact unsupported by the archaeological evidence. It then retells the story of Roman Bath by focusing on three interlinked aspects: the entanglement of the sanctuary with Roman imperialism, the role of the hot springs in the lives of worshipers, and Bath's place within the wider world of the western Roman Empire.

Testi, intertesti, contesti : seminario su The wife of bath di Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
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ISBN: 8834305094 9788834305096 Year: 2000 Volume: 62 14 Publisher: Milano: Vita e pensiero,

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