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De-Centering Rome
Journal of Architectural Education Pub Date : 2020-07-02 , DOI: 10.1080/10464883.2020.1790922
Adnan Z. Morshed 1
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Teaching the history of architecture from a global perspective remains controversial. First, there is no consensus on what global history is or should be. Second, global history warrants a fundamental transformation of the disciplinary tactics of knowledge production and new models of grounded research in cross-border phenomena. Third, historians often feel intellectually and morally challenged as to how to tackle the epistemic framing of the Other through the institutional mandate of inclusivity. In this essay, I examine how architectural history textbooks typically frame the Roman Empire as part of the Greco-Roman foundation of “Western civilization.” I then highlight how Rome’s long-distance trade relationships, strategic alliances, taxation policies, and frontier activities render untenable the historical canon’s essentialization of the Roman Empire as a cohesive Mediterranean unit propelled by its internal dynamics. Analyzing the works of Greek historian Strabo, Greco-Roman geographer Isidore, and the anonymous author of the Periplus of the Eurythraean Sea, I demonstrate how the Roman emperor Augustus’s seizure of Egypt after the Battle of Actium in 30 BCE transformed Rome’s economic and imperial aspirations. I argue that just because we can now use recent research to highlight Rome’s “trans-civilizational encounters” with Afro-Eurasian regions does not mean that it is easy to de-center an entrenched academic tradition. But global histories can provide architecture students with new insights into the challenges of articulating history as a narrative of entangled human experiences.

中文翻译:

去中心化罗马

从全球角度教授建筑史仍然存在争议。首先,对于全球历史是什么或应该是什么,没有达成共识。其次,全球历史需要对知识生产的学科策略和跨界现象的扎根研究新模式进行根本性转变。第三,对于如何通过包容性的制度授权来处理他者的认知框架,历史学家经常感到智力和道德上的挑战。在这篇文章中,我研究了建筑史教科书通常如何将罗马帝国作为“西方文明”的希腊罗马基础的一部分。然后我强调罗马的长途贸易关系、战略联盟、税收政策、和边境活动使罗马帝国作为一个由其内部动力推动的有凝聚力的地中海单位的历史经典无法站得住脚。通过分析希腊历史学家斯特拉博、希腊罗马地理学家伊西多尔以及《欧律普拉斯海的佩里普拉斯》的匿名作者的作品,我展示了罗马皇帝奥古斯都在公元前 30 年亚克兴战役后夺取埃及是如何改变罗马的经济和帝国抱负的. 我认为,仅仅因为我们现在可以使用最近的研究来突出罗马与非洲-欧亚地区的“跨文明相遇”,并不意味着很容易去中心化根深蒂固的学术传统。但是,全球历史可以为建筑专业的学生提供新的见解,以了解将历史表达为纠缠不清的人类经历的叙述所面临的挑战。
更新日期:2020-07-02
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