R
Hingley 2000 Roman
Officers and English Gentlemen: the imperial origins of Roman Archaeology.
Routledge, London. ISBN 0-415-23580-4 (pbk), ISBN
0-415-23579-0 (hbk).
This
book examines the ways in which Roman archaeology developed during the C19
and C20 in Britain. It focuses upon the roles that Roman archaeology played
in the context of the ‘imperial’ discourse of the British empire. It also
explored the idea of Rome as a popular myths of origin within Britain and
assessed the significance of this image to the developing tradition of archaeological
research.
I am
also researching images of Rome within Europe and ‘the West’ in general.
An edited book develops some relevant ideas:
R Hingley
(ed) 2001 Images of Rome: Perceptions of ancient Rome in Europe and the
United States in the modern age. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary
Series No. 44, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA. ISBN 1-887829-44-X (pbk).
The book contains the following articles:
‘Images of Rome’ (R Hingley), ‘The Image of Rome in Spain’ (G Mora), ‘Rome
in America’ (S Dyson), ‘Ancestor cults: the perception of ancient Rome in
modern Italian culture’ (N Terrenato), ‘The Heilige Römische Reich Deutscer
Nation and Herman the German’ (M Struck), ‘Vercingetorix, Asterix and
the Gauls’ (A King), ‘The Batavian myth’ (W Hessing), ‘The contribution
of classical Rome to the character of the English’ (R Hingley) and ‘A Balkan
attitude towards ancient Rome’ (S Babic). For a review of this volume see
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2002/2002-05-10.html
I have
recently completed a book, R. Hingley and C. Unwin Boudica: Iron Age
warrior queen (Hambledon and London), that will be published in November
2004. The first half examines the ancient historical and archaeological
evidence for Boudica, while the second part explores the ways in which her
image has been developed during the past 400 years.
My
own current research upon this theme is developing in two ways:
·
focussing upon the use of images of Rome within Eurocentric
discourse during the C19 and C20.
·
exploring the relevance of classical Rome in the context
of debates about globalization and contemporary imperialism. This issue
is picked up in my forthcoming book Globalization and Roman Culture.
The origins of the discipline of archaeology
I am writing an article on the history of
the Society of Antiquaries from 1815 to 1850 for an anniversary volume Visions
of Antiquity (edited by Susan Pearce), which is to be published during
2007. This paper focuses upon the early origins of archaeology as a professional
discipline. I intend to expand my research on this topic to explore the
social role of archaeology in C19 and C20 society.
Current field projects
A project
in south Warwickshire aims to examine the context of a substantial fragment
of Roman marble sarcophagus discovered during fieldwork. Only one certain
example of a Roman marble sarcophagus is known from a Roman context in Britain
(at Welwyn in Hertfordshire) and work during 2001 and 2002 suggests that
the fragment of sarcophagus from the site in south Warwickshire is a Roman
period import. Fieldwalking, aerial photography, geophysical survey (resistivity
and magnetometry) and trial trenching have been carried out with grant assistance
from The Roman Research Trust and The British Academy. This work has produced
evidence for a complex of Roman period features on this site and further
excavation will occur during 2004. The intention is to examine the status
and significance of the Roman site.
Fieldwork
was conducted during 2003 on the Roman civil settlement at Piercebridge
(County Durham). Magnetometry and fieldwalking produced evidence for a dense
area of Roman settlement to the east of the Roman fort in the field called
'Tofts'. Earlier aerial photographs of this site indicate a dense network
of roads and buildings but the provisional results of current fieldwork
suggest an even denser area of occupation.
A project
in Northern Portugal aims to examine the character of native society within
the context of provincial change. The project is being conducted with Professor
Francisco Queiroga of Porto and focuses upon an area around the later prehistoric
castro (hillfort) of Penices (Vila Nova de Famalicao). The hillfort ceases
to occupied in the Augustan period but the project focuses upon the later
prehistoric and Roman use of the hilltop and surrounding area. Initial fieldwork
will be conducted in 2004 and a more ambitious scheme of work developed
from 2005 to 2008.
Teaching
and research students
I teach
a number of undergraduate courses courses in Durham and convene the MA in
Archaeology (Roman option). On the MA, I teach the following modules in
alternate years: Roman imperial discourse and Images of Rome.
Roman Imperial Discourse examines the methods by which Rome created and
managed its empire and the native responses to Roman imperial control. Images
of Rome explores that way that people in the post-Roman period have drawn
upon ideas drawn from the world of classical Rome. Please contact me for
further information about this course.
I currently
co-supervise 8 research students, undertaking work on a variety of topics,
including Piraeus in the Roman period, Hadrian's Wall, industrial production
and the villas of eastern England.
Membership
of Committeesd bodies
· Director
of the Centre for Roman Provincial Archaeology, University of Durham.
·
Member of English Heritage's Research Advisory Panel
·
Member of English Heritage's National Mapping Programme Advisory
Group
· Member
of the Council of The Roman Society (2001-4).
·
Member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching
·
Member of the Rosemary Cramp Trust.
Selected
publications
R. Hingley (forthcoming) Globalization
and Roman Culture: Imperialism, unity and diversity. Routledge. For
publication in Autumn/Winter 2004.
R. Hingley and C. Unwin (in press) Boudica:
Iron Age Warrior Queen. Hambledon and London. For publication in November
2004.
R. Hingley 2004 'Rural Settlement in Northern
Britain', in M. Todd (ed.) A Companion to Roman Britain. Blackwell.
R. Hingley 2003 'Recreating coherence without
reinventing Romanization', Digressus: The internet journal of the classical
world, 3, 112-9.
R
Hingley 2002 ‘Concepçoes de Roma: uma perspectiva inglesa’, in P. P. Funari
(ed) Textod Didáticos, No. 47. Campinas, Brazil.
R
Hingley and D Miles 2002 ‘The human impact on the landscape: agriculture,
settlement, industry, infrastructure’, in P. Salway (ed) Short Oxford
History of the British Isles: The Rome Era. Oxford University Press.
R Hingley
(ed) 2001 Images of Rome: Perceptions of ancient Rome in Europe and the
United States in the modern age. Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary
Series No. 44, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA.
R
Hingley 2000 Roman Officers and English Gentlemen: the imperial origins
of Roman archaeology, Routledge.
R
Hingley 2000 ‘Medieval or later rural settlement in Scotland – the value
of the resource’, in J Atkinson and I Banks (eds) Medieval or later rural
settlement. BAR British, Oxford.
R
Hingley 1999 ‘The imperial context of Roman studies and a proposal toward
a new understanding of the process of social change’, in P Funari, M Hall
and S Jones (eds) Historical Archaeology: Back from the edge. One
World Archaeology, Routledge.
R
Hingley 1999 ‘The creation of the later prehistoric landscape and the context
of the reuse of Neolithic and earlier Bronze Age monuments in Britain and
Ireland’, in B Bevan (ed) Northern Exposure: Studies of the iron Age
of northern and western Britain. University of Leicester.
R
Hingley 1998 Settlement and sacrifice: The later prehistoric peoples
of Scotland. Canongate.
R
Hingley, H Moore, J Triscott and G Wilson 1997 ‘The excavation of two later
Iron Age fortified homesteads at Aldclune, Blair Athol’, PSAS 127,
407-66.
R
Hingley 1997 ‘Resistance and domination: social change in Roman Britain’,
in D Mattingly (ed) Dialogues in Roman imperialism: power, discourse and
discrepant experiences in the Roman empire. Journal of Roman Archaeology
Supplementary series No. 23. Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA.
R
Hingley 1997 ‘Iron, iron-working and regeneration’, in A Gwilt and C Haselgrove
(eds) Reconstructing Iron Age Societies. Oxbow.
R
Hingley 1996 ‘The ‘legacy’ of Rome: the rise, decline and fall of the theory
of Romanization’, in J Webster and N Cooper (eds) Roman imperialism:
Post-Colonial Perspectives. University of Leicester.
R
Hingley 1996 ‘Ancestors and identity in the later prehistory of Atlantic
Scotland – the reuse and reinvention of Neolithic monuments and material
culture’, World Archaeology 28, 231-43.
R
Hingley 1993 Medieval or later Rural Settlement in Scotalnd. Historic
Scotland, Edinburgh.
R
Hingley 1989 Rural Settlement in Roman Britain. Seaby.
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