Elite Masculinity and Warfare in Cisalpine Gaul, c. 400-50 BCE

This volume explores the relationship between how elite masculinity was expressed and warfare in Cisalpine Gaul between c. 400-50 BC.

Autorentext

Alastair R. Lumsden received his PhD from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His research interests include expressions of identity, socio-political and military developments, together with networks and dynamics of power in Mediterranean and temperate European cultural groups in the first millennium BCE.

Inhalt

1. Introduction; 2. Framing Cisalpine Gaul; 3. Elite Masculinities and Archaeology; 4. Methodology; 5. The Material Evidence; 6. Elite Warrior Masculinity and Warfare in Cispadane Gaul c. 400-250; 7. Elite Masculine Identity and Hierarchy in Cispadane Gaul c. 400-250; 8. Transpadane Gaul c. 200-50; 9. Elite Warrior Masculinity in Transpadane Gaul c. 200-50; 10. Varying Notions of Elite Warrior Masculinity in Cisalpine Gaul c. 400-50; 11. Absent Forms of Military Equipment; 12. Warfare in the western Mediterranean; 13. Cisalpine Gallic Forces; 14. Cisalpine Gallic Cavalry; 15. Cisalpine Gauls in Battle; 16. The evolution of Cisalpine Gallic warfare; 17. Elite masculinity in Cisalpine Gaul warfare and socio-political developments