Dr Edward Bispham

Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History, Brasenose College

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Profile

I’m interested in all areas of antiquity, the classical world and its interlocutors; I teach most ancient history papers. For the past decade and a bit more I have been thinking about how historians should and can use archaeological data, and vice versa. I have been very lucky to be able to go to the mountains in central Italy and think about this while other people shovel large amounts of soil around. Currently I’m chairman of the Sub-Faculty of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology: my present project involves trying to find out what this means in practice.

Research Interests

Pre-Roman and Roman Italy (history, epigraphy, archaeology); Roman historiography

Selected Recent Publications

2007: ‘The Samnites’, in G.J. Bradley, E. Isayev & C. Riva (eds), Ancient Italy. Regions without Boundaries, Exeter: Exeter University Press, 179-223.
2007: Vita Vigilia Est. Essays in Honour of Barbara Levick. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 100, ed. with G. Rowe and E. Matthews; ‘Pliny the Elder’s Italy’, London: Institute of Classical Studies, 41-67.
2007: From Asculum to Actium. The Municipalization of Italy from the Social War to Augustus, Oxford: OUP.
2008: Roman Europe. Short Oxford History of Europe (editor) ; Spanish edn 2009; Polish edn forthcoming; ‘Introduction’, ‘Warfare and the Army’, ‘Religions’, ‘Timeline’., Oxford: OUP.
2008: ‘What Lies Beneath: Ploughsoil Assemblages, the Dynamics of Taphonomy and the Interpretation of Field Survey Data’, (with K. Swift & N. Wolff), in G. Lock & A. Faustoferri (eds), Archaeology and Landscape in Central Italy. Papers in Memory of John A. Lloyd. Oxford University School of Archaeology: Monograph 69, Oxford: Oxbow, 53-76.
2010: Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. with B.A. Sparkes & T.E. Harrison, paperback edn, Edinburgh: EUP.

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