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JONATHAN EDMONDSON
Affiliation
York UniversityAcademy or College
Academy of the Arts and HumanitiesYear Elected
2019Areas of Interest
Roman Empire, Epigraphy, & Social History; Imperialism and Colonialism; Social Memory; Funerary Commemoration, Public Spectacle
EDMONDSON, Jonathan – Department of History, York University
Jonathan Edmondson is an internationally renowned Roman historian, whose research on Rome’s Hispanic provinces has made path-breaking contributions to our understanding of the impact of Roman imperialism on provincial communities. A leading epigrapher, he co-edited the landmark Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy and co-directs ADOPIA, a digital atlas of personal names from the Iberian Peninsula in antiquity. His research on gladiators provides new perspectives on the significance of public spectacle in the Roman world.
Jonathan Edmondson est un historien romain de renommée internationale, dont les recherches sur l’Hispanie romaine ont apporté des contributions innovantes à notre compréhension de l’impact de l’impérialisme romain sur les communautés provinciales. Épigraphiste de premier plan, il a coédité le célèbre Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy et il codirige ADOPIA, un atlas numérique onomastique de la Péninsule Ibérique antique. Ses recherches sur les gladiateurs offrent de nouvelles perspectives sur l’importance du spectacle public dans le monde romain.