La perception d’une chaussée romaine au cours de la première modernité : le cas de la voie Bavay-Tongres (1560-1660)
(2015) Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire — Vol. 93, n° 1, p. 221-248 (2015)
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- (en) The ancient road between Bavay and Tongeren is the main highway of Roman origin crossing Belgium and northern France. This road has survived the passage of time, shaped landscapes and captured the imagination of people living nearby, from antiquity down to the present day. This paper focuses on the reception of this road in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (1560-1660), a period marked by the rediscovery of classical antiquity and the development of a “proto-archaeology” in the southern Netherlands and the principality of Liège. This article examines, on the one hand, the road’s re-use and its impact on the landscape, and, on the other hand, the early modern scholars’ and travellers’ perception of this Roman highway (controversies about its origins, archaeological observations…).
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Latteur, O. (2015). La perception d’une chaussée romaine au cours de la première modernité : le cas de la voie Bavay-Tongres (1560-1660). Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire, 93(1), 221-248. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/189300 (Original work published 2015)