TRAC 98 : proceedings of the eighth annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference which took place at the University of Leicester, April 1998 / edited by Patricia Baker ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Architecture, Performance and Ritual: the role of state architecture in the Roman Empire / Ralph Haussler -- 2. The Community of the Soldiers: a major identity and centre of power in the Roman empire / Simon James -- 3. Monumental Architecture & Becoming Roman in the First Centuries BC and AD / Kenneth Aitchison -- 4. Contact, Architectural Symbolism and the Negotiation of Cultural Identity in the Military Zone / Simon Clarke -- 5. Poverty or Power? The native response to Roman rule in the Fenland / Garrick Fincham -- 6. Constructing Romanitas: Roman public architecture and the archaeology of practice / Louise Revell -- 7. Usurping the Urban Image: the experience of ritual topography in late antique cities of the Near East / Richard Bayliss -- 8. A Pilgrimage Experience at Sacred Sites in Late Antique Anatolia / Mark Jackson -- 9. Christianity and the End of Roman Britain / David Petts -- 10. Identities and Cemeteries in Roman and Early Medieval Britain / Howard M. R. Williams -- 11. Quoit Brooches and the Roman-Medieval Transition / Geoff Harrison -- 12. Change or No change? Revised perceptions of urban transformation in late antiquity / Anna Leone -- 13. And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time...Feet and shoes as a material projection of the self / Carol van-Driel Murray -- 14. Soranus and the Pompeii Speculum: the sociology of gynaecology and Roman perceptions of the female body / Patricia Baker -- 15. The Dispersed Dead: preliminary observations on burial and settlement space in rural Roman Britain / John Pearce -- 16. Ideological Biases in the Urban Archaeology of Rome: a quantitative approach / Giovanni Ricci and Nicola Terrenato.