Life and Letters from the Roman Frontier.

Greetings, I ask that you send the things which I need for the use of my boys ... which you well know I cannot properly get hold of here ... --A Roman solider on the frontier of England around AD 100 Over three hundred letters and documents were recently discovered at the fort of Vindolanda, in Nort...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bowman, Alan
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Subjects:	Vindolanda tablets. Vindolanda tablets 55 B.C.-449 A.D. Geschichte 85-122 Frontier and pioneer life > England > Chesterholme. Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Chesterholme. Fortification, Roman > England > Chesterholme. Inscriptions, Latin > England > Chesterholme. Wooden tablets > England > Chesterholme. Romans > England > Chesterholme. Tablets (Paleography) wax tablets. Classical antiquities Excavations (Archaeology) Fortification, Roman Frontier and pioneer life Inscriptions, Latin Romans Wooden tablets Römerzeit Schriftlichkeit Schreibtafel Vindolanda Site (Chesterholme, England) Great Britain > History, Military > 55 B.C.-449 A.D. Chesterholme (England) > Antiquities, Roman. Hadrian's Wall (England) England > Chesterholme England > Chesterholme > Vindolanda Site England > Hadrian's Wall Great Britain Vindolanda Military history
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Cover; Life and Letterson the Roman frontier vindolanda and its People; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Writing-tablets; 3. Strategies of Occupation; 4. The Roman Army; 5. Officers and Men, and Women; 6. Social and Economic Life on the Frontier; 7. Letters and Literacy; Appendix I: Technical Terminology; Appendix II: The Texts; Bibliography; The Plates; Index; Acknowledgments

Life and Letters from the Roman Frontier.

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