A Cognitive History of Roman Britain: New Opportunities?

The article is focused on the issue of how forward-looking cognitive history of Roman Britain is. Studies of the province are experiencing a veritable boom in theoretical inquiry and debate, which gives a sense of the discipline's rapid and qualitative development. Nevertheless, most of the publications are well within a familiar framework of cognition and interpretation, dating back to the long-criticized theory of Romanization. It is only through new approaches, among which the cognitive approach can play an important role that we can go beyond these established boundaries, raise new problems and develop new answers to old questions. The author gives a brief overview of several pieces of work that are close to cognitive historiography in their essence and content. Even the few of them, addressing the cognitive theory, show the high potential of this approach and its importance for future Romano-British studies.