City Walls In Late Antiquity

Author : Emanuele Intagliata,Simon J. Barker,Christopher Courault
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789253672

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City Walls in Late Antiquity by Emanuele Intagliata,Simon J. Barker,Christopher Courault Pdf

The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300–600 AD) throughout the western and eastern empire. City walls were the most significant construction projects of their time and they redefined the urban landscape. Their appearance and monumental scale, as well as the cost of labour and material, are easily comparable to projects from the High Empire; however, urban circuits provided late-antique towns with a new means of self-representation. While their final appearance and construction techniques varied greatly, the cost involved and the dramatic impact that such projects had on the urban topography of late-antique cities mark city walls as one of the most important urban initiatives of the period. To-date, research on city walls in the two halves of the empire has highlighted chronological and regional variations, enabling scholars to rethink how and why urban circuits were built and functioned in Late Antiquity. Although these developments have made a significant contribution to the understanding of late-antique city walls, studies are often concerned with one single monument/small group of monuments or a particular region, and the issues raised do not usually lead to a broader perspective, creating an artificial divide between east and west. It is this broader understanding that this book seeks to provide. The volume and its contributions arise from a conference held at the British School at Rome and the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome on June 20-21, 2018. It includes articles from world-leading experts in late-antique history and archaeology and is based around important themes that emerged at the conference, such as construction, spolia-use, late-antique architecture, culture and urbanism, empire-wide changes in Late Antiquity, and the perception of this practice by local inhabitants.

Author : Emanuele Intagliata,Christopher Courault,Simon J. Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789253640

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City Walls in Late Antiquity by Emanuele Intagliata,Christopher Courault,Simon J. Barker Pdf

The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300-600 AD) throughout the western and eastern empire. City walls were the most significant construction projects of their time and they redefined the urban landscape. Their appearance and monumental scale, as well as the cost of labour and material, are easily comparable to projects from the High Empire; however, urban circuits provided late-antique towns with a new means of self-representation. While their final appearance and construction techniques varied greatly, the cost involved and the dramatic impact that such projects had on the urban topography of late-antique cities mark city walls as one of the most important urban initiatives of the period. To-date, research on city walls in the two halves of the empire has highlighted chronological and regional variations, enabling scholars to rethink how and why urban circuits were built and functioned in Late Antiquity. Although these developments have made a significant contribution to the understanding of late-antique city walls, studies are often concerned with one single monument/small group of monuments or a particular region, and the issues raised do not usually lead to a broader perspective, creating an artificial divide between east and west. It is this broader understanding that this book seeks to provide.The volume and its contributions arise from a conference held at the British School at Rome and the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome on June 20-21, 2018. It includes articles from world-leading experts in late-antique history and archaeology and is based around important themes that emerged at the conference, such as construction, spolia-use, late-antique architecture, culture and urbanism, empire-wide changes in Late Antiquity, and the perception of this practice by local inhabitants.

Author : Dr John Rich,John Rich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134761357

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The City in Late Antiquity by Dr John Rich,John Rich Pdf

The city was the nexus of the Roman Empire in its early centuries. The City in Late Antiquity charts the change undergone by cities as the Empire was weakened by the third-century crisis, and later disintegrated under external pressures. The old picture of the classical city as everywhere in decline by the fourth century is shown to be far too simple, and John Rich seeks to explain why urban life disappeared in some regions, while elsewhere cities survived through to the Middle Ages and beyond.

Author : Anna Leone
Publisher : Edipuglia srl
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788872284988

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Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest by Anna Leone Pdf

"This book examines the complex transition of North Africa from the Late Roman period to the Arab conquest, focusing on three provinces: Zeugitana, Byzacena and Tripolitana. In particular, it considers the continuity and transformation of towns, as a result of economic, political and social changes. The period sees the wide diffusion of Christianity, the imposition of Vandal rule and Arianism, the presence of a new Empire and the Arab/Muslim takeover. It is also a period of archaeological and material transition: physically towns changed and classical structures, in particular, decayed and were reused. The evidence considered here encompasses a wide range of material, including publications from 1800 (Italian and French colonial excavations) to modern times. These data form the basis for a detailed review of archaeological evidence in this geographical area and for the analysis of the processes of evolution that characterised North African cities"--

Author : Ian Archibald Richmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : City walls
ISBN : UOM:39076005468660

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The City Wall of Imperial Rome by Ian Archibald Richmond Pdf

Author : Hendrik W. Dey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107069183

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The Afterlife of the Roman City by Hendrik W. Dey Pdf

This book offers a new perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Author : Mark Humphries
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004422612

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Cities and the Meanings of Late Antiquity by Mark Humphries Pdf

This study examines how cities have become an area of significant historical debate about late antiquity, challenging accepted notions that it is a period of dynamic change and reasserting views of the era as one of decline and fall.

Author : Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521836722

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Ravenna in Late Antiquity: AD; 7. Ravenna capital: 600-850 AD by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis Pdf

A comprehensive survey of Ravenna's history and monuments in late antiquity, including discussions of scholarly controversies, archaeological discoveries, and interpretations of art works.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1119 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004252585

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War and Warfare in Late Antiquity (2 vols.) by Anonim Pdf

This collection of papers, arising from the Late Antique Archaeology conference series, explores war and warfare in Late Antiquity. Papers examine strategy and intelligence, weaponry, literary sources and topography, the West Roman Empire, the East Roman Empire, the Balkans, civil war and Italy.

Author : Oliver Nicholson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1743 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192562463

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The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity by Oliver Nicholson Pdf

The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive reference book covering every aspect of history, culture, religion, and life in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East (including the Persian Empire and Central Asia) between the mid-3rd and the mid-8th centuries AD, the era now generally known as Late Antiquity. This period saw the re-establishment of the Roman Empire, its conversion to Christianity and its replacement in the West by Germanic kingdoms, the continuing Roman Empire in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Persian Sassanian Empire, and the rise of Islam. Consisting of over 1.5 million words in more than 5,000 A-Z entries, and written by more than 400 contributors, it is the long-awaited middle volume of a series, bridging a significant period of history between those covered by the acclaimed Oxford Classical Dictionary and The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. The scope of the Dictionary is broad and multi-disciplinary; across the wide geographical span covered (from Western Europe and the Mediterranean as far as the Near East and Central Asia), it provides succinct and pertinent information on political history, law, and administration; military history; religion and philosophy; education; social and economic history; material culture; art and architecture; science; literature; and many other areas. Drawing on the latest scholarship, and with a formidable international team of advisers and contributors, The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity aims to establish itself as the essential reference companion to a period that is attracting increasing attention from scholars and students worldwide.

Author : Amelia R. Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786723581

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Corinth in Late Antiquity by Amelia R. Brown Pdf

Late antique Corinth was on the frontline of the radical political, economic and religious transformations that swept across the Mediterranean world from the second to sixth centuries CE. A strategic merchant city, it became a hugely important metropolis in Roman Greece and, later, a key focal point for early Christianity. In late antiquity, Corinthians recognised new Christian authorities; adopted novel rites of civic celebration and decoration; and destroyed, rebuilt and added to the city's ancient landscape and monuments. Drawing on evidence from ancient literary sources, extensive archaeological excavations and historical records, Amelia Brown here surveys this period of urban transformation, from the old Agora and temples to new churches and fortifications. Influenced by the methodological advances of urban studies, Brown demonstrates the many ways Corinthians responded to internal and external pressures by building, demolishing and repurposing urban public space, thus transforming Corinthian society, civic identity and urban infrastructure. In a departure from isolated textual and archaeological studies, she connects this process to broader changes in metropolitan life, contributing to the present understanding of urban experience in the late antique Mediterranean.

Author : Philip Rousseau
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118293478

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A Companion to Late Antiquity by Philip Rousseau Pdf

An accessible and authoritative overview capturing the vitality and diversity of scholarship that exists on the transformative time period known as late antiquity. Provides an essential overview of current scholarship on late antiquity – from between the accession of Diocletian in AD 284 and the end of Roman rule in the Mediterranean Comprises 39 essays from some of the world's foremost scholars of the era Presents this once-neglected period as an age of powerful transformation that shaped the modern world Emphasizes the central importance of religion and its connection with economic, social, and political life Winner of the 2009 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers

Author : Douglas Boin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107024014

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Ostia in Late Antiquity by Douglas Boin Pdf

'Ostia in Late Antiquity' narrates the life of Ostia Antica, Rome's ancient harbor, during the later empire.

Author : Michael J. Kelly
Publisher : Punctum Books
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1953035051

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Urban Interactions: Communication and Competition in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Michael J. Kelly Pdf

"This volume is dedicated to eliciting the interactions between localities across late antique and early medieval Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Significant research has been done in recent years to explore how late "Roman" and post-"Roman" cities, towns and other localities communicated vis-à-vis larger structural phenomena, such as provinces, empires, kingdoms, institutions and so on. This research has contributed considerably to our understanding of the place of the city in its context, but tends to portray the city as a necessarily subordinate conduit within larger structures, rather than an entity in itself, or as a hermeneutical object of enquiry. Consequently, not enough research has been committed to examining how local people and communities thought about, engaged with, and struggled against nearby or distant urban neighbors.Urban Interactions addresses this lacuna in urban history by presenting articles that apply a diverse spectrum of approaches, from archaeological investigation to critical analyses of historiographical and historical biases and developmental consideration of antagonisms between ecclesiastical centers. Through these avenues of investigation, this volume elucidates the relationship between the urban centers and their immediate hinterlands and neighboring cities with which they might vie or collaborate. This entanglement and competition, whether subterraneous or explicit across overarching political, religious or other macro categories, is evaluated through a broad geographical range of late "Roman" provinces and post-"Roman" states to maintain an expansive perspective of developmental trends within and about the city."

Author : Gian Pietro Brogiolo,Bryan Ward Perkins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9004109013

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The Idea and Ideal of the Town Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Gian Pietro Brogiolo,Bryan Ward Perkins Pdf

This volume collects papers by distinguished European scholars, on the changing perception of the city in the period of transition from the Roman World to the Early Middle Ages. Central themes are the persistence of classical ideals of urban life, within a rapidly-changing world, and the emergence of a new ideal of the city that was specifically Christian.