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Author : Gareth Sears
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015070949089
Oxbow says: Based on archaeological, literary and epigraphic sources, this study focuses on processes of continuity and change in Late Roman North Africa, from the late 3rd to the early 5th century AD.
Author : Ray Laurence,Simon Esmonde Cleary,Gareth Sears
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139500784
The city is widely regarded as the most characteristic expression of the social, cultural and economic formations of the Roman Empire. This was especially true in the Latin-speaking West, where urbanism was much less deeply ingrained than in the Greek-speaking East but where networks of cities grew up during the centuries following conquest and occupation. This well-illustrated synthesis provides students and specialists with an overview of the development of the city in Italy, Gaul, Britain, Germany, Spain and North Africa, whether their interests lie in ancient history, Roman archaeology or the wider history of urbanism. It accounts not only for the city's geographical and temporal spread and its associated monuments (such as amphitheatres and baths), but also for its importance to the rulers of the Empire as well as the provincials and locals.
Author : Shira L. Lander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107146945
Lander provides a new understanding of ancient notions of ritual space by analyzing literary along with archaeological evidence.
Author : Martin Sterry,David J. Mattingly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108494441
This ground-breaking volume pushes back conventional dating of the earliest sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation in the Sahara.
Author : Fikret Yegül,Diane Favro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108577069
Since antiquity, Roman architecture and planning have inspired architects and designers. In this volume, Diane Favro and Fikret Yegül offer a comprehensive history and analysis of the Roman built environment, emphasizing design and planning aspects of buildings and streetscapes. They explore the dynamic evolution and dissemination of architectural ideas, showing how local influences and technologies were incorporated across the vast Roman territory. They also consider how Roman construction and engineering expertise, as well as logistical proficiency, contributed to the making of bold and exceptional spaces and forms. Based on decades of first-hand examinations of ancient sites throughout the Roman world, from Britain to Syria, the authors give close accounts of many sites no longer extant or accessible. Written in a lively and accessible manner, Roman Architecture and Urbanism affirms the enduring attractions of Roman buildings and environments and their relevance to a global view of architecture. It will appeal to readers interested in the classical world and the history of architecture and urban design, as well as wide range of academic fields. With 835 illustrations including numerous new plans and drawings as well as digital renderings.
Author : Gareth Sears
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Africa, North
ISBN : 0752448439
The story of the cities of Roman Africa
Author : Anna Leone
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191626005
This book focuses primarily on the end of the pagan religious tradition and the dismantling of its material form in North Africa (modern Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD. Leone considers how urban communities changed, why some traditions were lost and some others continued, and whether these carried the same value and meaning upon doing so. Addressing two main issues, mainly from an archaeological perspective, the volume explores the change in religious habits and practices, and the consequent recycling and reuse of pagan monuments and materials, and investigates to what extent these physical processes were driven by religious motivations and contrasts, or were merely stimulated by economic issues.
Author : Dr John Rich,John Rich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134761357
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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1119 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004252585
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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004210394
This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines the archaeology of 'paganism' in late antiquity. Papers explore the end of the temples, the nature of ritual deposits, the fate of religious statues and the iconography in material culutre. These are complemented by two extensive bibliographic essays.
Author : Jonathan Conant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521196970
This is the first systematic study of the changing nature of Roman identity in post-Roman North Africa.
Author : Robin Whelan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520401433
Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 c.e. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene ("Catholic") and Homoian ("Arian") Christians and explores their rival claims to political and religious legitimacy. These contests--sometimes violent--are key to understanding the wider and much-debated issues of identity and state formation in the post-imperial West.
Author : R. Bruce Hitchner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119072089
Explore a one-of-a-kind and authoritative resource on Ancient North Africa A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity, edited by a recognized leader in the field, is the first reference work of its kind in English. It provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of North Africa's rich history from the Protohistoric period through Late Antiquity (1000 BCE to the 800 CE). Comprised of twenty-four thematic and topical essays by established and emerging scholars covering the area between ancient Tripolitania and the Atlantic Ocean, including the Sahara, the volume introduces readers to Ancient North Africa's environment, peoples, institutions, literature, art, economy and more, taking into account the significant body of new research and fieldwork that has been produced over the last fifty years. A Companion to North Africa in Antiquity is an essential resource for anyone interested in this important region of the Ancient World.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004414365
Regional Urban Systems in the Roman World offers comprehensive reconstructions of the urban systems of large parts of the Roman Empire. In accounting for region-specific urban patterns it uses a combination of diachronic and synchronic approaches.
Author : Andrea Augenti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351874120
Core tourist sites for the classical world are the ruins of those many and scattered examples of 'lost' and abandoned towns - from Pompeii to Timgad to Ephesus and Petra. Usually studied for their peaks and growth, rarely are their ends explored in detail, to consider the processes of loss and also to trace their 'afterlives', when they were often robbed for materials even if still hosting remnant populations.This volume breaks new ground by examining the phenomenon of urban loss and abandonment from Roman to medieval times across the former Roman Empire. Through a series of case studies two main aspects are examined: firstly, the sequences and chronologies of loss of sites, roles, structures, people, identity; and secondly the methodologies of study of these sites - from early discoveries and exploitation of such sites to current archaeological and scientific approaches (notably excavation, urban survey, georadar and geophysics) to studying these crucial centres and their fates. How can we determine the causes of urban failure - whether economic, military, environmental, political or even religious? How drawn out was the process of urban decay and abandonment? What were the natures of the afterlives of these sites which archaeology is beginning to trace? How far does scrutiny of these 'extinct' sites help in discussion of archaeological trajectories of sites that persisted? The fourteen core chapters in this collection consider specific examples and case studies of such 'lost' classical cities from across the many Roman provinces in order to address these questions. Bringing together an array of archaeological and historical voices to share views on and findings from excavations and surveys of 'failed' towns, this volume offers much to scholars of Roman, late antique and early medieval and medieval archaeology and history.
