Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire

The principal aims of the book Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal: Civitates Hispaniae in the Early Empire are to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of the urban systems of the Iberian Peninsula during the Early Empire and to explain why these systems looked the way they did.

Author: Pieter Houten
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/29/2024
Pages: 460
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.47lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780367708672

About the Author

Pieter Houten is a research fellow within the ERC-project 'LatinNow: Latinization of the North-Western Provinces' at the University of Nottingham, UK, and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents at the University of Oxford, UK. He wrote his PhD thesis Civitates Hispaniae within the ERC-funded project 'An Empire of 2,000 Cities' at Leiden University, Netherlands. His research focuses on urbanisation and Latinisation on the Iberian Peninsula in the Roman period.