Running the Roman Home - Brossura

Croom, Alexandra

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0752465171 ISBN 13: 9780752465173

Casa editrice: The History Press, 2012

Riassunto

The first in-depth look at life on Rome's domestic frontier explores the effort required every day to run a Roman household This work considers the three elements of housework?supply, maintenance, and disposal. It is divided into sections on how the Romans collected water and fuel, milled flour, and produced thread; how they cleaned the house, illuminated it, did the washing up, cleaned their clothes, got rid of waste water and sewage, and threw out their garbage. The evidence is taken from literary, archaeological, and artistic sources, and often compared to historical or modern parallels from communities using the same methods.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Alexandra Croom is keeper of archaeology at Tyne and Wear Archives and Museum, where she has worked for 20 years. She is the author of Roman Clothing and Fashion and Roman Furniture.

Product Description:

Running of the Roman Home explores the real 'every-day' life of the Romans and the effort required to run a Roman household. It considers the three elements of housework - supply, maintenance and disposal. It is divided into sections on how the Romans collected water and fuel, milled flour and produced thread; how they cleaned the house, illuminated it, did the washing up, cleaned their clothes, got rid of waste water and sewage, and threw out their rubbish. The evidence is taken from literary, archaeological and artistic sources, and often compared to historical or modern parallels from communities using the same methods.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: The History Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0752465171
• ISBN 13: 9780752465173
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176