The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Mainz, June 12-15,

This volume presents the results of the fourteenth workshop of the international network ’Impact of Empire’. It focuses on the ways in which Rome’s dominance influenced, changed, and created landscapes, and examines in which ways (Roman) landscapes were narrated and semantically represented. To assess the impact of Rome on landscapes, some of the twenty contributions in this volume analyse functions and implications of newly created infrastructure. Others focus on the consequences of colonisation processes, settlement structures, regional divisions, and legal qualifications of land. Lastly, some contributions consider written and pictorial representations and their effects. In doing so, the volume offers new insights into the notion of ’Roman landscapes’ and examines their significance for the functioning of the Roman empire.

Marietta Horster is professor of Ancient History at the University of Mainz and director of Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (Berlin). She has published on the cultural and intellectual history of the Roman imperial period and late antiquity and on Greek religious history and cult-related institutions, including Landbesitz griechischer Heiligtümer (De Gruyter, 2004).
Nikolas Hächler is an associated researcher at the Department of History at the University of Zurich. His research focuses on administration and organisation of the Roman and Byzantine empire. He has published on the history of the senatorial order during the 3rd century CE (Brill, 2019).

Contributors are: Rémi Auvertin, Francesco Bono, Camilla Campedelli, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Christopher Chinn, Xavier Deru, Silke Diederich, Sergio España-Chamorro, Anne Gangloff, Nikolas Hächler, Marietta Horster, Saskia Kerschbaum, Isabel Köster, Anne Kolb, Sabine Lefebvre, Fernando Lozano, Del A. Maticic, Elena Muñiz Grijalvo, Günther Schörner, Abigail Walker, Eli Weaverdyck.