Neglected Architectural Decoration From The Late Antique City

Author : Solinda Kamani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004520592

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Neglected Architectural Decoration from the Late Antique City by Solinda Kamani Pdf

This book examines neglected architectural decoration from the late antique city of the East Mediterranean. It addresses the omission in scholarship of discussion about the embellishment of non-monumental secular buildings (public porticoes, small public baths, shops/workshops, and non-elite houses). The finishing of these structures has been overlooked at the expense of more lofty buildings and remains one of the least known aspects of the late antique city. The author surveys the archaeological evidence for decoration in the region, with the maritime sites of Ostia and Ephesus selected as case studies. Drawing upon archaeological, written, and visual sources, it attempts to reconstruct how such buildings appeared to late antique viewers and investigates why they were decorated as they were.

Author : Solinda Kamani
Publisher : Brill
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 9004520163

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Neglected Architectural Decoration from the Late Antique City by Solinda Kamani Pdf

This volume assesses evidence for the decoration used in non-monumental secular public and private buildings, taken from sites around the East Mediterranean.

Author : Luke Lavan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1737 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004423824

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Public Space in the Late Antique City (2 vols.) by Luke Lavan Pdf

This book looks at secular urban space in the Mediterranean city, A.D. 284-650, focusing on places where people from different religious and social group were obliged to mingle. It looks at streets, processions, fora/ agorai, market buildings, and shops.

Author : Mark J. Johnson,Amy Papalexandrou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351957649

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Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and its Decoration by Mark J. Johnson,Amy Papalexandrou Pdf

The fourteen essays in this collection demonstrate a wide variety of approaches to the study of Byzantine architecture and its decoration, a reflection of both newer trends and traditional scholarship in the field. The variety is also a reflection of Professor Curcic’s wide interests, which he shares with his students. These include the analysis of recent archaeological discoveries; recovery of lost monuments through archival research and onsite examination of material remains; reconsidering traditional typological approaches often ignored in current scholarship; fresh interpretations of architectural features and designs; contextualization of monuments within the landscape; tracing historiographic trends; and mining neglected written sources for motives of patronage. The papers also range broadly in terms of chronology and geography, from the Early Christian through the post-Byzantine period and from Italy to Armenia. Three papers examine Early Christian monuments, and of these two expand the inquiry into their architectural afterlives. Others discuss later monuments in Byzantine territory and monuments in territories related to Byzantium such as Serbia, Armenia, and Norman Italy. No Orthodox church being complete without interior decoration, two papers discuss issues connected to frescoes in late medieval Balkan churches. Finally, one study investigates the continued influence of Byzantine palace architecture long after the fall of Constantinople.

Author : Elizabeth Jeffreys,Fiona K. Haarer
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 075465740X

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Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies by Elizabeth Jeffreys,Fiona K. Haarer Pdf

The theme of the 2006 International Congress of Byzantine Studies was display, assessing what strategies the people of Byzantium used to express their thoughts, ideals, fears and beliefs, and how these have been interpreted through various modern discourses. The first volume presents the texts of the 28 plenary papers delivered at the Congress; the second and third contain the abstracts of the many hundreds of papers written for the 64 separate panels and the sessions of communications.

Author : Carlos Machado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192571960

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Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome by Carlos Machado Pdf

Between 270 and 535 AD the city of Rome experienced dramatic changes. The once glorious imperial capital was transformed into the much humbler centre of western Christendom in a process that redefined its political importance, size, and identity. Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome examines these transformations by focusing on the city's powerful elite, the senatorial aristocracy, and exploring their involvement in a process of urban change that would mark the end of the ancient world and the birth of the Middle Ages in the eyes of contemporaries and modern scholars. It argues that the late antique history of Rome cannot be described as merely a product of decline; instead, it was a product of the dynamic social and cultural forces that made the city relevant at a time of unprecedented historical changes. Combining the city's unique literary, epigraphic, and archaeological record, the volume offers a detailed examination of aspects of city life as diverse as its administration, public building, rituals, housing, and religious life to show how the late Roman aristocracy gave a new shape and meaning to urban space, identifying itself with the largest city in the Mediterranean world to an extent unparalleled since the end of the Republican period.

Author : Caroline Goodson,Anne Elisabeth Lester,Carol Symes
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0754667235

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Cities, Texts, and Social Networks, 400-1500 by Caroline Goodson,Anne Elisabeth Lester,Carol Symes Pdf

Offering a new interpretation of the pre-modern urban past, Cities, Texts and Social Networks highlights contemporary experiences of the city and their mediation through written, visual and environmental evidence. Comprising twelve essays that model important new ways of re-imagining the urban world, it points to significant patterns of socialisation in medieval urban milieus, particularly with respect to the role of sanctity, the evolution of charitable landscapes and the coalescence of formal institutions and informal networks of human interaction.

Author : Luke A. Lavan,William Bowden
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004125671

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Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology by Luke A. Lavan,William Bowden Pdf

An exploration of theoretical frameworks, methodology and field practice suited to the late antique Mediterranean. Broad themes such as long-term change, topography, the economy and social life are covered, but in terms of the issues and problems being tackled by scholars of late antiquity.

Author : Slavko Ciglenečki
Publisher : Založba ZRC
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789610507352

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Between Ravenna and Constantinople by Slavko Ciglenečki Pdf

Knjiga predstavlja naselbinsko podobo prelomnega časa (konec 3. do začetka 7. st.) v zgodovini Evrope na izpostavljenem geografskem območju med prestolnicama poznoantičnega sveta Raveno in Konstantinoplom. Politične, vojaške, gospodarske in socialne razmere so ob močnem pritisku barbarov izza limesa povzročile propad nekdanjih naselbinskih oblik: mesta so bila v celinskem delu največkrat opuščena ali pa so obstajala le še v močno skrčenih in ruraliziranih skeletih nekdanjih mest. Bolje so se ohranila le urbana središča v mediteranskem pasu. Tudi nižinske naselbine, predvsem nekdaj močne rimske vile, so prenehale obstajati že do sredine 5. st. Prebivalstvo se je zato začelo postopno umikati v odročne kraje in na naravno zavarovane hribovske naselbine avtarkičnega značaja, kjer pa so še vedno ohranjali antične civilizacijske pridobitve vse do konca 6. st. Predstavljene so tudi utrdbe iz Justinijanovega časa, ki dokazujejo domišljen sistem varovanja komunikacij med obema prestolnicama. Delo podaja temeljni pregled množice značilnih mest, nižinskih zaselkov in utrjenih naselbin z načrti, zemljevidi in fotografijami, kot tudi interpretacijo celovite preobrazbe naselbinske slike.

Author : Grazyna Bakowska-Czerner,Rafal Czerner
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789691498

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Greco-Roman Cities at the Crossroads of Cultures: The 20th Anniversary of Polish-Egyptian Conservation Mission Marina el-Alamein by Grazyna Bakowska-Czerner,Rafal Czerner Pdf

Papers present research from different regions ranging from ancient Mauritania, through Africa, Egypt, Cyprus, Palestine, Syria, as well as sites in Crimea and Georgia. Topics include: topography, architecture, interiors and décor, religious syncretism, the importance of ancient texts, pottery studies and conservation.

Author : Christoph Ohlig
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Aqueducts
ISBN : 9783833485688

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Cura Aquarum in Jordanien by Christoph Ohlig Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004309777

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Field Methods and Post-Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology by Anonim Pdf

Late antique sites are often excavated badly and are hardly ever published in full, especially in the East. This volume seeks to provide a critique of this situation and exemplars of best practice. It will be an important reference work for scholars engaged in fieldwork and those seeking to use archaeological evidence in historical discussions.

Author : David William Milson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047418719

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Art and Architecture of the Synagogue in Late Antique Palestine by David William Milson Pdf

This study is a re-assessment of the impact of Christian art and architecture on synagogues in Late Antique Palestine, focussing on features common to both churches and synagogues. Why did radical changes appear in Jewish art and architecture during a period of competition with Christians?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004299047

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Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (4th – 7th cent.) by Anonim Pdf

Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City studies the phenomenon of the Christianization of the Roman Empire within the context of the transformations and eventual decline of the Greco-Roman city.

Author : Anna Leone
Publisher : Edipuglia srl
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 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"--