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Season 2 of the Peopling the Past Podcast is finally here. This season, we’re shifting our focus to Roman Art and Archaeology. To kick off the newest season, we are joined by Dr. Elizabeth M. Greene, Associate Professor of Classics at Western University. Her research focuses on Roman Provincial material culture and history, with a specialty in the Roman military and the role of women, children and families in frontier military communities, and she is currently the Principal Investigator of the Vindolanda Archaeological Leather Project at the Roman fort of Vindolanda.
Listen in, as Dr. Greene tells us all about an understudied aspect of of daily life at the Roman fort of Vindolanda, notably, the hundreds of shoes that were excavated at the site.
Interested in learning more? Check out this related article by Dr. Greene:
Greene, E.M. 2018. “Footwear and Fashion on the Fringe: Stamps and Decoration on Leather and Shoes from Vindolanda (1993-2016)” in T. Ivleva, J. De Bruin, M. Driessen (eds.), Embracing the Provinces: Society and Material Culture of the Frontier Regions. Oxbow. 143-152.
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Additional Resources for this Episode
Driel-Murray, C. van. 1993. The Leatherwork. In C. van Driel-Murray, J. P. Wild, M. Seaward and J. Hillam (eds) Vindolanda Research Reports, New Series, Volume III: The early wooden forts. Preliminary reports on the leather, textiles, environmental evidence and dendrochronology, 1-75. Bardon Mill: Roman Army Museum Publications.
Driel-Murray, C. van. 1999. And did those feet in ancient time… Feet and shoes as a material projection of the self. In P. Baker, C. Forcey, S. Jundi, R. Witcher (eds) TRAC 98: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, 131–40.Oxford, Oxbow.
Driel-Murray, C. van. 2001. Vindolanda and the dating of Roman footwear. Britannia 32, 185–97.
Driel-Murray, C. van. 2001. Footwear in the north-western provinces of the Roman Empire. In O. Goubitz, C. van Driel-Murray, W. Groenman-van Waateringe (eds) Stepping through Time. Archaeological Footwear from Prehistoric Times until 1800, 336–76. Zwolle, Stichting Promotie Archeologie.
Driel-Murray, C. van. 2002. The leather trades in Roman Yorkshire and beyond. In P. Wilson and J. Price (eds) Aspects of Industry in Roman Yorkshire and the North, 109–23. Oxford, Oxbow.
Driel-Murray, C. van. 2016. Fashionable footwear: craftsmen and consumers in the north-west provinces of the Roman Empire. In A. Wilson and M. Flohr (eds) Urban Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World, 132–52. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Greene, E.M. 2019. “Metal fittings on the Vindolanda shoes: Footwear and evidence for podiatric knowledge in the Roman world,” in S. Pickup and S. Waite, Surveying Shoes, Slippers and Sandals in Antiquity. Routledge. 310-24.
Greene, E.M. 2018. “Footwear and Fashion on the Fringe: Stamps and Decoration on Leather and Shoes from Vindolanda (1993-2016)” in T. Ivleva, J. De Bruin, M. Driessen (eds.), Embracing the Provinces: Society and Material Culture of the Frontier Regions. Oxbow. 143-152.
Greene, E.M. 2014. “If the shoe fits: Style and function of children’s shoes from Vindolanda” in R. Collins and F. McIntosh (eds.), Life in the Limes: Studies of the People and Objects of the Roman Frontiers. Oxbow. 29-36.
Greene, E.M. 2013. “Before Hadrian’s Wall: Early military communities on the Roman frontier in Britain,” in R. Collins and M.F.A. Symonds (eds.), Breaking Down Boundaries: Hadrian’s Wall in the 21st Century, Journal of Roman Archaeology. 17-32.
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