
Yr Athro Guy Bradley
Professor of Roman and Early Italian History’
Ysgol Hanes, Archaeoleg a Chrefydd
- bradleygj@cardiff.ac.uk
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Research interests
- Cultural change and ethnicity in Ancient Italy
- Early Roman history
- Roman colonization in Italy
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Education and qualifications
1990 BA Hons in Ancient and Medieval History, University College London
1991 MA in Ancient History, University College London
1997 PhD, University College London (Umbria from the Iron Age to the Augustan Era)
Career overview
1995-1996 Teaching Assistant, then Temporary Lecturer, University of Reading
1996-1998 Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History, Cardiff University
1998-2008 Lecturer in Ancient History, Cardiff University
2004-2007 Head of Ancient History Section
2008- Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Cardiff University
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- 1992-1995 British Academy major state studentship for PhD
- 2002-2003 AHRB Research Leave grant
- 2003 Hugh Last Fellow at the British School at Rome
- 2009-2010 Visiting Fellowship at the Institute of Classical Studies
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- Member of the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2002–2005
- Member of Institute of Classical Studies Library Committee
- External Examiner at Exeter University (2005–2007)
- External Examiner at Oxford University (2007–2010)
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- Joint organiser with Dr John-Paul Wilson of the conference Parallels and Contrasts in Greek and Roman Colonisation: Origins, Ideologies, and Interactions, Institute of Classical Studies, 1998.
- Invited lecture on the history of Umbria at the conference L'Etrurie et l'Ombrie avant Rome. Cité et territoire, 2004, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
- Director of Studies of The Tribes of Ancient Italy - the first millennium, weekend school for the Dept. of Continuing Education, Oxford University, 2004.
- A keynote speaker at the Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology 9, 2005, Chieti, Italy
- Invited lecture for a research project entitled Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers. Key issues in the study of the Roman Republic, Leiden, Netherlands, 2006
- Organiser and respondent of the panel 'Shifting Identities in Ancient Italy and Sicily', at the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2006
- Invited lecture on 'The Iuvanum Survey Project: fortifications' at the conference Iuvanum tra Sangro e Aventino. Ricerca, tutela, valorizzazione, Montenerodomo, Italy, 2008
- Coordinator of the organising committee for the Classical Association Conference, Cardiff 7–10 April 2010
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2020
- Bradley, G. 2020. Early Rome to 290 BC: the beginnings of the city and the rise of the republic. The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome. Edinburgh University Press.
2019
- Bradley, G. 2019. State formation and the Social War. In: Hölkeskamp, K., Karataş, S. and Roth, R. eds. Empire, Hegemony or Anarchy? Rome and Italy, 180 – 30 BC. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 167-189.
2018
- Farney, G. and Bradley, G. eds. 2018. The peoples of Ancient Italy. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter.
2017
- Bradley, G. and Hall, J. 2017. The Roman conquest of Italy. In: Farney, G. and Bradley, G. eds. The Peoples of Ancient Italy. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 191-214.
- 2017. Introduction. In: Farney, G. and Bradley, G. eds. The Peoples of Ancient Italy. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 1-5.
- Bradley, G. 2017. Mobility and secession in the Early Roman Republic. Antichthon 51, pp. 149-171. (10.1017/ann.2017.10)
- Bradley, G. 2017. The Rome of Tarquinius Superbus: issues of demography and economy. In: Lulof, P. S. and Smith, C. eds. The Age of Tarquinius Superbus: Central Italy in the Late 6th Century. Proceedings of the Conference The Age of Tarquinius Superbus, a Paradigm Shift?.. Leuven: Peeters, pp. 123-133.
- Farney, G. and Bradley, G. eds. 2017. The peoples of Ancient Italy. Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter.
2015
- Bradley, G. 2015. Investigating aristocracy in archaic Rome and central Italy: social mobility, ideology and cultural influences. In: Fisher, N. and Van Wees, H. eds. 'Aristocracy' in Antiquity. Redefining Greek and Roman Elites. Kataloge Und Schriften Der Staatlichen Bibliothek Regensburg Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, pp. 85-124.
2014
- Bradley, G. 2014. The nature of Roman strategy in mid-Republican colonization and road building. In: Stek, T. D. and Pelgrom, J. eds. Roman Republican Colonization: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Ancient History. Papers of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome Vol. 62. Rome: Palombi, pp. 60-72.
2013
- Bradley, G. J. and Glinister, F. 2013. Italic religion. In: Bredholt Christensen, L., Hammer, O. and Warburton, D. eds. The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe. European History of Religions Durham: Acumen, pp. 173-191.
- Bradley, G. J. 2013. Umbria and Picenum. In: Smith, C. ed. The Cambridge Ancient History VII. Plates volume. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 82-97.
2010
- Bradley, G. J. 2010. Cities and communities in pre-Roman Umbria. In: Fontaine, P. ed. L'Etrurie et l'Ombrie avant Rome. Cité et territoire. Brussels: Institut Historique Belge de Rome, pp. 155-163.
2008
- Bradley, G. J. 2008. The Roman Republic. In: Bispham, E. ed. Roman Europe. Short Oxford History of Europe Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 32-68.
2007
- Bradley, G. J. 2007. Romanisation: the end of the peoples of Italy?. In: Bradley, G. J., Isayev, E. and Riva, C. eds. Ancient Italy: Regions Without Boundaries. Exeter: Exeter University Press, pp. 295-322.
2006
- Bradley, G. J. 2006. Colonisation and identity in Republican Italy. In: Bradley, G. J. and Wilson, J. eds. Greek and Roman Colonisation: Origins, Ideologies and Interactions. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, pp. 161-187.
2005
- Bradley, G. J. 2005. Aspects of the cult of Hercules in central Italy. In: Bowden, H. and Rawlings, L. eds. Herakles and Hercules: Exploring a Graeco-Roman Divinity. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, pp. 129-151.
- Bradley, G. J. 2005. The Iuvanum survey project: an ancient community in Samnium. Presented at: 6th Conference of Italian Archaeology, Groningen, The Netherlands, 15-17 April 2003 Presented at Attema, P., Nijboer, A. and Zifferero, A. eds.Papers in Italian Archaeology VI. Proceedings of the 6th Conference of Italian Archaeology, Vol. 2. BAR International Series Vol. 1452. Oxford: Archaeopress pp. 1024-1029.
2001
- Bradley, G. 2001. Ancient Umbria. State, culture, and identity in central Italy from the iron age to the Augustan era. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2000
- Bradley, G. 2000. The colonisation of Interamna Nahars. In: Cooley, A. ed. The Epigraphic Landscape of Roman Italy. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies London: Institute of Classical Studies, pp. 3-17.
- Bradley, G. 2000. Tribes, states and cities in central Italy. In: Herring, E. and Lomas, K. eds. The Emergence of State Identities in Italy. London: Accordia, pp. 109-129.
- Bispham, E. H., Bradley, G. J., Hawthorne, J. W. J. and Kane, S. 2000. Towards a phenomenology of Samnite fortified centres. Antiquity 74(283), pp. 23-24. (10.1017/S0003598X00066035)
1997
- Bradley, G. 1997. Iguvines, Umbrians, Romans: ethnic identity in central Italy. In: Cornell, T. and Lomas, K. eds. Gender and Ethnicity in Ancient Italy. Accordia specialist studies on Italy London: Accordia, pp. 53-67.
- Bradley, G. 1997. Archaic sanctuaries in Umbria. Cahiers du Centre G. Glotz(8), pp. 111-129. (10.3406/ccgg.1997.1436)
Addysgu
My teaching centres mainly on Roman history, covering a period from the development of the archaic city of Rome to the early Principate, dealing with both chronological periods and also thematic issues such as Roman slavery and Romanisation. The modules I teach on are:
Undergraduate
- Conquest and Crisis: the Roman Republic - 30 credits (HS3316)
- Roman Imperial History 31 BC-AD 138 - 30 credits (HS3317)
- Roman Religion - 10 credits (HS3331)
- Rome and Carthage - 20 credits (HS3333)
- Slaves, Serfs and Freedmen - 10 credits (HS3360)
- Material Evidence for Ancient History - 10 credits (HS4333)
- Early Rome: History and Legend - 10 credits (HS4359)
- The Etruscans: History and Society - 10 credits (HS4364)
I also lecture and take seminars in the Greek and Roman Part One modules:
- Introduction to Ancient Greek History - 20 credits (HS3101)
- Introduction to Roman History - 20 credits (HS3102)
Postgraduate
- Themes and Approaches in Ancient History - 20 credits (HST002)
- Understanding Texts - 10 credits (HST011)
- The Romanisation of Italy - 20 credits (HST028)
- Special Topic: Ethnicity in the Ancient World - 20 credits (HST033)
Research supervision
For PhD projects that I currently supervise, see under the Postgraduate Students tab. I would welcome supervising PhD students in the history and archaeology of Italy before the Roman Empire, and in the history and archaeology of early Rome.
Research interests
My research has focused on the history and archaeology of Italy and Rome in the first millennium BC, using approaches that draw on comparative historical and anthropological studies and the integrated use of archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources. My interests in ethnic identity and the formation of ancient communities has informed my archaeological research at Iuvanum in the central Italian Appennines, where the Iuvanum Survey Project, directed by myself and Oliva Menozzi (Chieti), has systematically investigated the territory of this well-excavated Roman city. Our results make Iuvanum one of the most extensively examined ancient cities in the upland areas of Italy, showing both how a pre-Roman community living in a dispersed settlement pattern emerged in the first millennium BC and how the community disintegrated at the end of the classical period.
My longer term intentions are to develop my research into several areas of Roman history:
- cultural change and ethnicity in Ancient Italy
- early Roman history
- Roman colonization in Italy
Projects
Iuvanum Survey Project
I am a co-director of the Iuvanum Survey Project (2000–2005) in collaboration with Oliva Menozzi of the University of Chieti (Italy). The aim of the project has been to investigate the territory of a Roman town in Samnium by field walking and other survey techniques, and to integrate the results with a comprehensive and critical analysis of the evidence for the site's regional context. This project developed out of the excavation of Monte Pallano in the Sangro Valley Survey, and has been undertaken with the full support and cooperation of the Soprintendenza Archeologica per l'Abruzzo. The funders of the project are the British Academy, Cardiff University, the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, and the Society of Antiquaries.
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