Religion

The scholarship available on Religion in Roman Britain.

General

  • Green, M.J., The gods of the Celts, Gloucester, 1986.
  • Green, M.J., The gods of Roman Britain, Aylesbury, 2003.
  • Henig, M., Religion in Roman Britain, London, 1984.
  • Millett, M., Revell, L. & Moore, A.J., The Oxford handbook of Roman Britain, Oxford, 2016, Ch. 17-19, 30-32.

Further Reading

  • Adams, J.N., ‘British Latin: The Text, Interpretation and Language of the Bath Curse Tablets’ in Britannia Vol.23, 1992, 1-26.
  • Allason-Jones, L. & McKay, B., Coventina’s Well: a shrine on Hadrian’s Wall, Hexham, 1985.
  • Casey, P.J & Hoffman, B., ‘Excavations at the Roman Temple in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire in 1980 and 1981’ in The Antiquaries journal: being the journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London Vol.79, 1991, 81-144.
  • Cunliffe, B., Davenport, P. & Care, V., The temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath: Vol. 1: The site, Oxford, 1985.
  • Cunliffe, B., Tomlin, R. & Walker, D., The Temple of Sulis Minerva at Bath: Vol. 2: The finds from the sacred spring, Oxford, 1988.
  • Daniels, C.M., ‘Mithras Saecularis, the Housesteads mithraeum and a fragment from Carrawburgh’ in Archaeologia Aeliana: miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity Vol.40, 1962, 105-115.
  • de la Bedoyere, G., The buildings of Roman Britain, London, 1991.
  • Hassall, M., ‘Altars, curses and other epigraphic evidence’ in Temples, churches and religion: recent research in Roman Britain with a gazetteer of Romano-Celtic temples in continental Europe, Oxford, 1980, 79-89.
  • Henig, M. & Throne, M., ‘Throne, altar and sword: civilian religion and the Roman army in Britain’ in Military & civilian in Roman Britain: cultural relationships in a frontier province, Oxford, 1984, 227-248.
  • Hunter, F., Henig, M., Sauer, E. & Gooder, J., ‘Mithras in Scotland: A Mithraeum at Inveresk (East Lothian)’ in Britannia Vol.47, 2016, 119-168.
  • Kamash, Z., Gosden, C. & Lock, G., ‘Continuity and Religious Practices in Roman Britain: The Case of the Rural Religious Complex at Marcham/Frilford, Oxfordshire’ in Britannia Vol.41, 2010, 95-125.
  • Lewis, M.J.T., Temples in Roman Britain, Cambridge, 1966.
  • Rodwell, W., Temples, churches and religion: recent research in Roman Britain with a gazetteer of Romano-Celtic temples in continental Europe, Oxford, 1980.
  • Shepherd, J.D., The temple of Mithras, London: excavations by W.F. Grimes and A. Williams at the Walbrook, London, 1998.
  • Tomlin, R., Tabellae Sulis. Roman Inscribed Tablets of Tin and Lead from the Sacred Spring at Bath, Oxford, 1988.
  • Wedlake, W.J. & Allen, D.F., The excavation of the shrine of Apollo at Nettleton, Wiltshire, 1956-1971, London, 1982.
  • Woodward, A. & Leach, P.E., The Uley shrines: excavation of a ritual complex on West Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, 1977-9, London, 1993.