Coping with Conflict – Ritual Action at the Core and on the Periphery of the Empire

Lawrence, Andrew (9 February 2019). Coping with Conflict – Ritual Action at the Core and on the Periphery of the Empire (Unpublished). In: Anthropological Approaches to War in the Roman Period. University College London. 09.02.2019.

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Thanks to new excavations, detailed analyses of find assemblages, and critical re-readings of Latin texts, the remains of ritual action in Rome and the Western provinces can now be more clearly identified.
Although there is no disputing that these are the material manifestation of orthopractic Roman religion, many questions regarding the exact interpretation and contextualization of the archaeological remains of the cult practices continue to exist. This is especially valid when looking for the motives behind sequenced or concentrated ritual activity – which situations triggered the erection of altars, the creation of ritual deposits or even the construction of a temple?
Using structured depositions as well as epigraphic and iconographic evidence in and around legionary fortresses and forts as a point of departure, this paper will demonstrate how religion connected Rome to its periphery in times of uncertainty. It will further show how specific events may have affected the frontier communities and which religious coping mechanisms they in turn adopted.
The combination of archaeological, epigraphic, and written sources illustrates how the omnipresence of conflict shaped religious experience in the Roman Empire.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of Archaeological Sciences > Archaeology of the Roman Provinces
UniBE Contributor:	Lawrence, Andrew Kenneth
Subjects:	900 History > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499)
Language:	English
Submitter:	Andrew Kenneth Lawrence
Date Deposited:	25 Feb 2022 09:42
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 16:08
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/165406