The Domesticity of Their Darkness
Archaeopress Archaeology (Verlag)
978-1-80583-115-0 (ISBN)
The Domesticity of Their Darkness is about the appearance of images of the enslaved in Roman art and the analysis of this archive. The word snapshots has been used quite deliberately, and very specifically, in the subtitle of this study because of the impossibility of there ever being the material evidence and opportunity to write a full, linear, chronological narrative about images of the enslaved in Roman times. The ancient enslaved are now to us like shadows out of time: yet, most importantly, they seem to have existed between the images discussed in this study. In these works it was never their aesthetic value that counted: they were to be read and understood, so that their meaning came across. In the Roman world everything was art, including the history of enslavement and of the enslaved. The floating roots of so many of these enslaved individuals cannot be located in a world where for the Roman elite name, roots, and family lineage created an ideological geography of belonging, of being inside, reaching into the future as well as back to the past. For the enslaved the tranquillity of simply inhabiting space could never be enough. Images of the enslaved in Roman domestic interiors often appear now as being somehow quite weird, in terms of the strange within the familiar and the familiar as strange. The domestic world portrayed, its domesticity, does not coincide with itself. There is a wrongness here, a delusive envelope, yet all is depicted as being right. The book represents an attempt to foreground the background.
Dr Iain Ferris FSA is an independent academic researcher and a former field archaeologist who has published three archaeological excavation monographs and eleven previous books, the most recent of which ‘A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind. Visualising Geographical Information in the Roman World’ was published by Archaeopress in 2024.
List of Figures
Image Credits
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter One: Severin Awaits You There
Isolation
Insight
Poison
Chapter Two: The Marble Index
Disorder
Transmission
Wilderness
Control
Connection
Chapter Three: Complete Control
Zone
Intrazone
Interzone
Ghosteen
Chapter Four: Innervisions
Specularisation
Shadow Play
Interior
Chapter Five: At Last I Am Free
Elevation
Consecration
Spectacle
Origin
Chapter Six: Straight Ahead
Movement
Word
Text
Precedent
Correspondence
Interpolation
Rhizomatic Entanglement
Acceptance
Chapter Seven: Ascension
Stilled Sorrows
No Enemy But Time
The Last Light Spoken
All That’s Beautiful Drifts Away
Perne in a Gyre
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Archaeopress Roman Archaeology |
| Zusatzinfo | 149 figures (colour throughout) |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 174 x 245 mm |
| Gewicht | 1117 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80583-115-1 / 1805831151 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80583-115-0 / 9781805831150 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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