Gregory William Coffman Mcdermott (1 results)
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press ; Oxford University Press 1949
- Hardcover
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.Sequitur Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. [Interesting provenance, previously owned by Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski.] Series 3, Volume 4. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Stamp of Jashemski on front end page. Scattered underlining and markings. Wilhelmina Jashemski was a leading founder of th…e discipline of garden archaeology as it emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. Her early scholarship as an ancient historian was on Roman law, and her publications in that area and her engaging teaching gained her tenure at the University of Maryland â" no small accomplishment for a woman at that time. Then she turned to her real passion, the study of how everyday Romans lived. She dared to see gardens as serious topic of scholarly investigation, the setting for the full range of activities of daily life in antiquity, from dining and recreation to religion and business activity. Seeing that a full understanding of garden culture could not be achieved through texts alone, she undertook a survey of garden sites around the Roman Empire that led to her first archaeological excavations at Pompeii.