Roman-style bathhouses are often used as markers to study processes of ‘Romanisation’, or, more generally, the spread of a Roman way of life throughout newly conquered regions. The building type, with its characteristic hypocaust system and pools, was a foreign element in regions unacquainted with communal bathing. However, to assume that these buildings were introduced and spread as a ‘package’, with the standard sequence of rooms and accompanying technology, would be oversimplifying a complex phenomenon of acceptance, rejection and adaptation. Since Roman baths are too often perceived as a mainly urban phenomenon, regions on the fringes of the empire with low levels of urbanisation, including the northern provinces, have been excluded from most seminal works.1 The present paper aims to examine a corpus of baths in NW Gaul from between the 1st and early 4th c. (i.e., the period between the first villa constructions and their abandonment following Germanic invasions) in order to challenge idées fixes2 that their plans were rigid and standardised and that most were in urban settings.

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不是你的经典沐浴：在西高卢采用和适应罗马沐浴习惯

罗马风格的浴室通常被用作研究“罗马化”过程的标志，或者更普遍地说，研究罗马生活方式在新征服地区的传播。这种建筑类型，以其特有的焚烧系统和水池，在不熟悉公共浴池的地区是一种外来元素。然而，假设这些建筑是作为一个“包”引入和传播的，具有标准的房间顺序和配套技术，将过于简单化接受、拒绝和适应的复杂现象。由于罗马浴场通常被认为是一种主要的城市现象，因此帝国边缘城市化程度较低的地区，包括北部省份，已被排除在大多数开创性作品之外。1本文旨在研究 1 世纪至 4 世纪早期高卢西北部的浴场语料库。（即从第一批别墅建造到日耳曼人入侵后废弃之间的时期），以挑战想法修复2他们的计划是严格和标准化的，而且大多数都在城市环境中。