Themed Section: Hadrian's Progress through the North-Western Provinces in a.d. 121–122

Thiel also refers to Hadrian's promotions of towns and cities in Upper Germany and Raetia, part of a wider policy of urban development also discussed by Fulford and by Reddé and Mees. The building of Hadrian's Wall, as Bruhn and Hodgson demonstrate, soon disrupted the pattern of settlement which had flourished in north-east England during the late Iron Age and survived the early decades of conquest. [...]Gardner explores the contribution which the interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks of Border Studies can make to the study of frontiers in the wider context of Roman Britain.