From the sixteenth century, classical texts enabled Scottish and English authors and artists to imagine the character and appearance of their forebears and to c

Within the colonial history of the British Empire there are difficulties in reconstructing the lives of people that came from very different traditions of exper

An extensively illustrated study of the origins of English and Scottish identity in the reading of classical texts which enabled authors and artists to imagine

Explores the diverse forms of elite resistance to and in the Roman Empire, often in subtle and silent ways.

This volume presents the proceedings of the ninth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire', which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empir