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civitas
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In addition to cataloguing the mosaics of Southeast Britain, the volume includes introductory discussion of the topography of the area, the Roman civitates, the towns, villas and their architecture, mosaics and room function, and the historical development of the mosaics from the first century to the fourth.
These were made popular by cartographers who sought to represent the world such as Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum and Munster's Cosmographia, and chorographers interested in regions, districts, and cities.
The Civitates sent their children to Catholic school and as a result paid tuition for their entire education.
 
 
 
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