Open AccessAndrea Chiricescu, Frontiera Imperiului Roman și UNESCO. Observații pe marginea unui studiu recent / The Limes of the Roman Empire and UNESCO. Observations on a recent study
Author(s) -
Andrea Chiricescu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
plural : history. culture. society = istorie. cultură. societate
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2345-184X
pISSN - 2345-1262
DOI - 10.37710/plural.v6i2_13
Subject(s) - nomination , empire , context (archaeology) , frontier , state (computer science) , roman empire , german , history , humanities , national heritage , art , ancient history , classics , geography , political science , ethnology , archaeology , law , algorithm , computer science
The year 1987 represents a key-point in recognizing the universal value of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, by inscribing Hadrian’s Wall into the UNESCO Heritage List. Followed closely by the Upper German-Raetian Limes (in 2005) and by the Antonine Wall (in 2008), the Frontier today is a single and complex monument of Roman Empire as a world state. The paper discusses the newly published volume – René Ployer, Marinus Polak, Ricarda Schmidt, The Frontiers of the Roman Empire. A Thematic Study and Proposed World Heritage Nomination Strategy (2017) – in the Romanian national context, as the State intends to nominate two segments of the Roman Frontier as UNESCO monuments until2021. Besides presenting the content of the volume, with the intent of raising awareness upon the subject among different stakeholders, the paper also tries to reach out to the experts involved in the nomination process, by tackling the questions of if and how the study could be used as a tool in communicating nationally with all interested parties.