Villa Landscapes in the Roman North - 2 contents - 8 preface - 10 Studying Roman villa landscapes in the 21st century.A multi-dimensional approach - 12 Reflections on the Iron Age background to the emergence of villa landscapes in northern France - 56 Exploring villa development in the northern provinces of the Roman empire - 72 On the origin and development of axial villas with double courtyards in the Latin West - 94 Town-country dynamics in Roman Gaul. The epigraphy of the rulingelite - 118 Ethnic recruitment, returning veterans and the diffusion of Roman culture among rural populations in the Rhineland frontier zone - 150 Indications for rural slavery in the northern provinces - 172 The idea of the villa. Reassessing villa development in south-east Britain - 190 The role of mortuary ritual in the construction of social boundaries by privileged social groups within villa landscapes - 206 Monumental funerary structures of the 1st to the 3rd centuries associated with Roman villas in the area of the Treveri - 222 Roman rural settlements in Flanders. Perspectives on a ‘non-villa’landscape in extrema Galliarum - 246 Evaluating settlement patterns and settlement densities in the villa landscapes between Tongres and Cologne - 270 The villa landscape of the Middle Aare valley and its spatial and chronological development - 286 Roman villa landscapes of the lignite mining areas in the hinterland of Cologne - 296 The Roman villa complex of Reinheim, Germany - 312 The Roman villa at Borg. Excavation and reconstruction - 328 List of contributors - 342