Books by Jonathan Edmondson
Nueva Epigrafía Funeraria de Augusta Emerita (NEFAE): Tituli sepulcrales urbanos (ss. I-VII) y su contexto arqueológico (Memoria: Monografías Arqueológicas de Mérida, 1). Mérida: Consorcio de la Ciudad Monumental de Mérida / Diputación Provincial de Badajoz. lxiii + 569 pp., 2019
NEFAE publishes 199 unpublished funerary inscriptions from the urban centre Augusta Emerita (Méri... more NEFAE publishes 199 unpublished funerary inscriptions from the urban centre Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Spain), dating from the 1st c. to the 7th c. CE and corrects the editions of eight others, taking full account of the archaeological contexts in which they were discovered. The epigraphic corpus is accompanied by six analytical chapters, examining the history of archaeological research on funerary areas in Mérida (ch. 1), the archaeological contexts of the inscriptions from the 1st c. to the 7th CE, using GIS (ch. 2), the typology of the funerary monuments (ch. 3), the nature of the Latin, the formulas and the letter-forms used for the epitaphs (ch. 4), and the onomastics and social context of those who were commemorated or who dedicated the funerary monuments (chs. 5-6). The volume is illustrated throughout with colour photographs, maps, plans and line-drawings and supported by full epigraphic and thematic indices.
edited by Alison Keith & Jonathan Edmondson, 2016
Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines... more Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature, from mid-republican Rome in the second century BC to the Second Sophistic in the second century AD. The contributors explore Latin texts both famous and obscure, from Roman drama and Menippean satire through Latin elegies, epics, and novels to letters issued by Roman emperors and compilations of laws.
Each of the essays in this volume combines close reading of Latin literary texts with historical and cultural contextualization, making the collection an accessible and engaging combination of formalist criticism and historicist exegesis that attends to the many ways in which classical Latin literature participated in ancient Roman civic debates.
Epigraphy, or the study of inscriptions, is critical for anyone seeking to understand the Roman w... more Epigraphy, or the study of inscriptions, is critical for anyone seeking to understand the Roman world, whether they regard themselves as literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, religious scholars or work in a field that touches on the Roman world from c. 500 BCE to 500 CE and beyond. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy is the fullest collection of scholarship on the study and history of Latin epigraphy produced to date. Rather that just a collection of inscriptions, however, this volume seeks to show why inscriptions matter and demonstrate to classicists and ancient historians how to work with the sources. To that end, the 35 chapters, written by senior and rising scholars in Roman history, classics, and epigraphy, cover everything from typograph to the importance of inscriptions for understanding many aspects of Roman culture, from Roman public life, to slavery, to the roles and lives of women, to the military, and to life in the provinces. Students and scholars alike will find the Handbook a critical tool for expanding their knowledge of the Roman world.
edited by Jonathan Edmondson, 2009
Augustus (63 BC - AD 14), the first Roman emperor, brought peace and stability to Rome after deca... more Augustus (63 BC - AD 14), the first Roman emperor, brought peace and stability to Rome after decades of strife and uncertainty. He put in place a new institutional framework for the Roman Empire and inspired the ideology that sustained it for the next three hundred years. This book presents a selection of the most important scholarship on Augustus and the contribution he made to the development of the Roman state in the early imperial period. The subjects of the selected papers include Augustus' dramatic rise to prominence following the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BC and the nature of his powers first as triumvir, then as Princeps; his policy regarding overseas wars and expansion, his administrative and military reforms of the Roman state; the role of his own family, his wife Livia, his son-in-law Agrippa and his adopted sons Gaius and Lucius Caesar and then Tiberius, in public life; his concern to reinforce Roman religion and family life; the development of an ideology that helped bolster his authority as ruler of an expanded Empire, including the importance of visual imagery, monuments and literature in the far-flung propagation of his image as leader; and the impact that his regime made on the communities of the Roman provinces. Jonathan Edmondson sets these papers into the general context of major trends in the study of Augustus in Britain, Europe and North America since the nineteenth century. Five are published here in English for the first time and many include illustrations of the most important visual evidence for the principate of Augustus. The book is equipped with a chronology, a glossary and a guide to further reading; all passages in Latin and Greek are translated into English.
edited by Jonathan Edmondson & Alison Keith, 2008
Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poeti... more Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture investigates the social symbolism and cultural poetics of dress in the ancient Roman world in the period from 200 BCE-400 CE. Editors Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith and the contributors to this volume explore the diffusion of Roman dress protocols at Rome and in the Roman imperial context by looking at Rome's North African provinces in particular, a focus that previous studies have overlooked or dealt with only in passing. Another unique aspect of this collection is that it goes beyond the male elite to address a wider spectrum of Roman society. Chapters deal with such topics as masculine attire, strategies for self-expression for Roman women within a dress code prescribed by a patriarchal culture, and the complex dynamics of dress in imperial Roman culture, both literary and artistic. This volume further investigates the literary, legal, and iconographic evidence to provide anthropologically-informed readings of Roman clothing.
This collection of original essays employs a range of methodological approaches - historical, literary critical, philological, art historical, sociological and anthropological - to offer a thorough discussion of one of the most central issues in Roman culture.
by Jonathan Edmondson, 2006
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Books by Jonathan Edmondson
Each of the essays in this volume combines close reading of Latin literary texts with historical and cultural contextualization, making the collection an accessible and engaging combination of formalist criticism and historicist exegesis that attends to the many ways in which classical Latin literature participated in ancient Roman civic debates.
This collection of original essays employs a range of methodological approaches - historical, literary critical, philological, art historical, sociological and anthropological - to offer a thorough discussion of one of the most central issues in Roman culture.