This paper examines how bathhouses of Roman villas in the north‐western part of the Empire can further our understanding of the amount of penetration the Roman cultural sphere had in less urbanised regions. The articulation of these baths to the villa, whether integrated, attached to it or completely freestanding, indicates degrees of accessibility beyond the inhabitants of the house. Rather than being merely private bathrooms for an elite that wished to enjoy the commodities of the city in the countryside, villa baths were social hubs for intra‐elite networking and possibly enabled a form of euergetism towards small rural communities in a landscape otherwise devoid of cities and small civic centres.

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仅受邀请。罗马西北部乡村浴池的可及性

本文研究了帝国西北部罗马别墅的浴室如何增进我们对罗马文化领域在城市化程度较低地区的渗透程度的了解。这些浴室与别墅之间的衔接，无论是整体的，与别墅相连的，还是完全独立的，都表明了房屋居民可及性的程度。别墅浴不仅是希望在乡村享受城市商品的精英人士的私人浴室，而且是精英内部网络的社交枢纽，并可能使原本没有城市的风景秀丽的农村小社区获得了一种自以为是的方式和小型的市民中心。