Robin Fleming
I am an early medieval historian, who writes history from both texts and material evidence. My most recent book, Britain After Rome, published by Penguin, came out in hardback in the UK last fall, and was released in the US and in paperback in May, 2011.
I am now working on a book on the material fall of Roman Britain.
I am now working on a book on the material fall of Roman Britain.
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These lectures explore the social, cultural, and ritual histories of Roman-Britain’s people through an investigation of their entanglements with dogs. In the highly anthrozootic world of Roman Britain, dogs and humans together shaped mutual ecologies and life-ways. Dogs also served as metaphorical and ritual agents, and they were central in the production of both social difference and lived religion under Rome. By following the trail left by dogs, we can recover something of the lifeways and experience of the people with whom they shared the world, and we can identify and characterize some of the mechanisms through which a Roman provincial society was created.
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The City of Boston Archaeology Program has excavated large numbers of backyard latrines. Latrines not only served as outhouses but they were used as rubbish tips, so they often contain large numbers of objects consumed and thrown away by a house’s occupants. In this class we will be concentrating our efforts on the things excavated from two of Boston’s North End latrines––one behind the Paul Revere House and the other behind #2 Unity Court, just behind Old North Church. We will also examine two more informal scatters of backyard garbage from the Revere house. We will be using this material, all of which is stored at the City of Boston Archaeology Lab, to write a history of some of the North End’s residents and their things. One of our contexts dates from the 1670s (some of this garbage was produced by the household of Increase and Cotton Mather), another from the 1770s (some likely Paul Revere's or his tenants’), another contains the garbage of English immigrants in the 1830–40s, and the fourth preserved the things thrown away by poor Italian immigrants in the 1880s. During the course of the semester we will study artefacts recovered from these sites, think about them alongside documentary, pictorial, and cartographic evidence, and learn how to use material culture to write history. We will also produce three closely related collaborative class projects: but more on these in a moment.