Simon Malmberg

Homepage: http://uib.academia.edu/SimonMalmberg

Title: Associate Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 22 00

E-mail: Simon.Malmberg@ahkr.uib.no

Visiting address: Øysteinsgt 1

Room number: 421

Simon Malmberg studies how traffic and movement can create and maintain local identity and syncretistic culture in major cities of the Roman Empire. The focus of his research has been the Subura district in central Rome, city gate areas in Rome’s eastern periphery, harbour quarters in southern Rome, and in Ostia, the port city of Rome, in the time period 100-500 CE. Malmberg has also studied how capital cities may express political status through architecture and ritual, with a focus on Rome, Constantinople and Ravenna in the period 300-800 CE. Furthermore, he has studied the rituals surrounding banquets in the imperial palaces at Rome and Constantinople. 

Fields of Research

Roman archaeology, specializing in late antiquity

Urban processes in Rome, Ostia, Ravenna and Constantinople, especially harbour quarters

Social, ethnic and religious identity

Traffic and urban movement

Imperial ceremony, political legitimacy, functions of capital cities

Study of foodways

Publications in Cristin

Selected Publications

Monographs

Forthcoming: The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome(Bloomsbury Academic), co-edited with Jonas Bjørnebye & Ida Östenberg

2003: Dazzling Dining: Banquets as an Expression of Imperial Legitimacy (Uppsala University), PhD thesis. Examiner: Professor Dame Averil Cameron [257 pages] 

Articles & Book Chapters

Forthcoming: ’Ships Are Seen Gliding Swiftly along the Sacred Tiber’: the river as an artery of urban movement and development, in J. Bjørnebye, S. Malmberg & I. Östenberg (eds.), The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome (Bloomsbury Academic) (peer-reviewed)

Forthcoming: Introduction, in J. Bjørnebye, S. Malmberg & I. Östenberg (eds.), The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome (Bloomsbury Academic). Written with Ida Östenberg. 

2014: Triumphal Arches and Gates of Piety at Constantinople, Ravenna and Rome, in S. Birk, T. Myrup Kristensen & B. Poulsen (eds.), Using Images in Late Antiquity (Oxbow Books), pp. 150-189. (peer-reviewed)

2014: Ravenna: Naval Base, Commercial Hub, Capital City, in K. Höghammar & A. Lindhagen (eds.), The Geography of Connections. Proceedings of a conference held at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at Uppsala university, 23-25 September 2010 (Boreas. Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations) (Uppsala University Press) (peer-reviewed)

2014: The Swedish Institute of Classical Studies at Rome, in C. Smith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (Springer), pp. 7181-7183. Written with Barbro Santillo Frizell.

2013: The New Palace of Mehmed Fatih and its Byzantine Legacy, in A. Ödekan, N. Necipoglu & E. Akyürek (eds.), The Byzantine Court: Source of Power and Culture. Papers from the Second International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studies Symposium (Koç University Press), pp. 49-55. (peer-reviewed)

2013: Byen mellem havnene: skibsfart og dagligt brød i senantikkens Konstantinopel [The city between the harbours: shipping and daily bread in late antique Constantinople], Sfinx 2013:2, pp. 57-61. (peer-reviewed)

2013: Vad är klassisk arkeologi? [What is classical archaeology?], Riss: et arkeologisk tidsskrift 2013:1, pp. 16-23.

2013: Banquets, Byzantine, in R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C.B. Champion, A. Erskine & S.R. Huebner (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Wiley-Blackwell), 1035-1036.

2012: Romerskt bordsskick [Roman table manners], Klassisk Forum 2012:2, 53-59.

2011: Movement and Urban Development at Two City Gates in Rome: the Porta Esquilina and Porta Tiburtina, in R. Laurence & D. Newsome (eds.), Rome, Ostia and Pompeii: Movement and Space (Oxford University Press), pp. 361-385. Written with Hans Bjur. (peer-reviewed)

2010: Forum Romanum: marknadsplats eller monument? [Forum Romanum: market place or monument?], Tidningen Stad 2 (2010). pp. 42-43.

2010: Mehmet Fatihs bysantinska palats [The Byzantine Palace of Mehmet Fatih], Dragomanen 14, pp. 74-80.

2009: Navigating the Urban Via Tiburtina, in H. Bjur & B. Santillo Frizell (eds.), Via Tiburtina: Space, Movement and Artefacts in the Urban Landscape (Swedish Institute in Rome), pp. 61-78. (peer-reviewed)

2009: The Suburb as Centre, in H. Bjur & B. Santillo Frizell (eds.), Via Tiburtina: Space, Movement and Artefacts in the Urban Landscape (Swedish Institute in Rome), pp. 109-128. Written with Hans Bjur. (peer-reviewed)

2009: Finding Your Way in the Subura, in M. Driessen et al. (eds.), TRAC 2008. Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference(Oxbow Books), pp. 39-51. (peer-reviewed)

2007: Dazzling Dining, in L. Brubaker & K. Linardou (eds.), Eat, Drink and Be Merry (Luke 12:19) – Food and Wine in Byzantium. Papers of the 37th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies in Honour of Professor A.A.M. Bryer (Ashgate), pp. 75-91. (peer-reviewed)

2005: Visualising Hierarchy at Imperial Banquets, in W. Mayer & S. Trzcionka (eds.),Feast, Fast or Famine: Food and Drink in Byzantium [Byzantina Australiensia 15] (Australian Association for Byzantine Studies), pp. 11-24. (peer-reviewed)

2005: Rituals on the road: two highways at Rome and Ravenna AD 400-750, in H. Bjur & B. Santillo Frizell (eds.), Via Tiburtina. Space, movement and artefacts in the urban landscape [The Swedish Institute in Rome. Projects and Seminars, 4:1] (The Swedish Institute in Rome), pp. 47-50.

Reviews

Forthcoming: Review of M. David, Eternal Ravenna: from the Etruscans to the Venetians, in The Classical Review 65:1

2014: Review of S. Alcock, J. Bodel, R. Talbert (eds.), Highways, byways, and road systems in the pre-modern world, in The Classical Review 64:1, pp. 262-264.

2011: Review of L. Revell, Roman Imperialism and Local Identities, in European Journal of Archaeology 14:1-2, pp. 334-336. 

2009: Review of P. von Rummel, Habitus barbarus: Kleidung und Repräsentation spätantiker Eliten im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert, in Opuscula 2, pp. 226-227. 

ARK102: Development of agriculture, early metalworking and hierarchical society

ARK 103: Cultures around the Mediterranean, in northern Europe and in Scandinavia in the period ca 1000 BCE-570 CE

ARK201: Theory and method

ARK250: Bachelor thesis in archaeology

ARK302: Archaeology: landscape, heritage and management

ARK305: Archaeological method

ARK350: Archaeology master thesis

Mediterranean Gateway of Imperial Rome: routine movement in the southern periphery studies movement in the southern periphery of the city of Rome, i.e. the quarters along the Tiber and the viae Portuensis, Ostiensis and Appia, south of the Republican Wall of the city. These were areas characterized by commerce and transport, a high physical integration and a cosmopolitan and fluctuating population. The project will investigate the importance of routine movement in forming and changing social identity and urban character in this area in the period 100-500 CE.