Naturalizing the Normative: Cosmology, Ontogenesis and the Emergence of Ritual Communities in Southern Roman Britain

Acknowledgements: Much of the research in this paper was undertaken during my PhD studies, and I would like to thank my supervisors David Mattingly, Will Bowden and Jeremy Taylor. I would also like to thank Cyprian Broodbank and Martin Millett for reading earlier drafts, providing critical comments and refining my arguments, and specifically to Martin for providing me with unpublished drafts of his work. I would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their comprehensive advice, as well as the editor John Robb. Any mistakes that remain are my own.