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TY - CHAP
T1 - Stranger than we knew it
T2 - Religious Landscapes and Ritual Practice on Hadrian’s Wall
AU - Cousins, Eleri
PY - 2023/9/7
Y1 - 2023/9/7
N2 - Research on the religion of Hadrian’s Wall has long stressed the role of army and state institutions in structuring the lives of soldiers serving on the frontier. These factors were unquestionably important, but emphasising them to the exclusion of other considerations can be short-sighted. To this end, this chapter explores how an added focus on landscape and on ritual action can enhance our understanding of religion’s role on the Wall. In so doing, it also attempts to bring our methodologies for understanding the religion of the frontier into closer dialogue with scholarship on religion in Roman Britain as a whole.
AB - Research on the religion of Hadrian’s Wall has long stressed the role of army and state institutions in structuring the lives of soldiers serving on the frontier. These factors were unquestionably important, but emphasising them to the exclusion of other considerations can be short-sighted. To this end, this chapter explores how an added focus on landscape and on ritual action can enhance our understanding of religion’s role on the Wall. In so doing, it also attempts to bring our methodologies for understanding the religion of the frontier into closer dialogue with scholarship on religion in Roman Britain as a whole.
M3 - Chapter
T3 - Britannia Monograph Series
BT - Hadrian’s Wall
A2 - Collins, Rob
A2 - Symonds, Matthew
PB - Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
CY - London
ER -