Reading Space: Social Interaction and Identity in the Houses of Roman Pompeii: A syntactical approach to the analysis and interpretation of built space

From urban space to urban history—an introduction

“…To some extent, this has been very healthy, as it facilitated the integration of valuable ideas and approaches from the social sciences into Roman archaeology. Experiments with the application of space syntax at Ostia and Pompeii have decisively altered our way of thinking about the nature and the working of Roman urban landscapes, and have made scholars ask questions that otherwise would not have been asked (Laurence 1994;Grahame 2000;Stöger 2011). The shift of emphasis towards studying movement in the last decade, and the recent work on the sensory qualities of everyday urban processes have similarly expanded the conceptual apparatus of discourse on Roman urbanism.…”

Early Christian Archaeology: A State of the Field

“…Material culture often provides a generic stage set that is re‐peopled by texts; it thus remains un‐interrogated for its own stories, often ignoring the recent archaeological literature that has emphasized the regional and chronological diversity of house forms and social conditions (e.g. Nevett 1999; Grahame 2000; Baker 2002; Hales 2003).…”