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Elite Masculinity and Warfare in Cisalpine Gaul, c. 400-50 BCE: What it Means to be a Man book cover

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Elite Masculinity and Warfare in Cisalpine Gaul, c. 400-50 BCE What it Means to be a Man

By Alastair R. Lumsden Copyright 2025
382 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

382 Pages 61 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume explores the relationship between how elite masculinity was expressed and warfare in Cisalpine Gaul between c. 400 and 50 BC. The first half of the book demonstrates that material changes in funerary assemblages reflected broader socio-political and military developments. The second half of this study presents the first in-depth analysis of the organisational and tactical... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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