Urban Developments In Late Antique And Medieval Rome

Author : Gregor Kalas,Ann van Dijk
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789048541492

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Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome by Gregor Kalas,Ann van Dijk Pdf

A narrative of decline punctuated by periods of renewal has long structured perceptions of Rome's late antique and medieval history. In their probing contributions to this volume, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars provides alternative approaches to understanding the period. Addressing developments in governance, ceremony, literature, art, music, clerical education and the city's very sense of its own identity, the essays examine how a variety of actors, from poets to popes, addressed the intermittent crises and shifting dynamics of these centuries with creative solutions that bolstered the city's resilience. Without denying that the past (both pre-Christian and Christian) always remained a powerful touchstone, the studies in this volume offer rich new insights into the myriad ways that Rome and Romans, between the fifth and the eleventh centuries, creatively assimilated the past in order to shape the future.

Author : Emanuele Intagliata,Simon J. Barker,Christopher Courault
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Neil Christie,Simon T. Loseby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018347497

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Towns in Transition by Neil Christie,Simon T. Loseby Pdf

The studies in this volume are based on new archaeological data and provide a full and convincing reassessment of the old image of urban decay and the impact of incoming 'Barbarians' and Arabs on towns. The broad geographical range of towns studied, and the informed and authoritative interpretations offered in this volume, will be invaluable to scholars seeking to understand this complex, intriguing and misunderstood period of history.

Author : Dr John Rich,John Rich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Thomas S. Burns,Thomas Samuel Burns,John W. Eadie
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050731960

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Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity by Thomas S. Burns,Thomas Samuel Burns,John W. Eadie Pdf

The essays in this volume reevaluate the cities and towns of the Empire as centers of habitation, rather than archaeological museums, and reconsider the evidence of continuous and pervasive cultural change across the countryside.

Author : Mark Humphries
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Fikret Yegül,Diane Favro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 915 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521470711

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Roman Architecture and Urbanism by Fikret Yegül,Diane Favro Pdf

Investigates Roman built environments from architectonic and planning perspectives, while celebrating the achievements of the provinces as well as Italy.

Author : Douglas R. Underwood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004390539

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(Re)using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600 by Douglas R. Underwood Pdf

In (Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood presents the history of Roman urban public monuments in the Late Antique West, demonstrating that their vibrant, yet variable, development was closely tied to significant shifts in urban ideologies and euergetistic patterns.

Author : Hendrik W. Dey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Jan Gadeyne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317081708

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Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, from Antiquity to the Present Day by Jan Gadeyne Pdf

This volume provides readers interested in urban history with a collection of essays on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic western city which is Rome. Scholars specialized in different historical periods contributed chapters, in order to find common themes which weave their way through one of the most complex urban histories of western civilization. Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary) the volume opens with the issue of how public space was defined in classical Roman law and how ancient city managers organized the maintenance of these spaces, before moving on to explore how this legacy was redefined and reinterpreted during the Middle Ages. The third group of essays examines how the imposition of papal order on feuding families during the Renaissance helped introduce a new urban plan which could satisfy both functional and symbolic needs. The fourth section shows how modern Rome continued to express strong interest in the control and management of public space, the definition of which was necessarily selective in this vastly extensive city. The collection ends with an essay on the contemporary debate for revitalizing Rome's eastern periphery. Through this long-term chronological approach the volume offers a truly unique insight into the urban development of one of Europe’s most important cities, and concludes with a discuss of the challenges public space faces today after having served for so many centuries as a driving force in urban history.

Author : Emanuele Intagliata,Christopher Courault,Simon J. Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Rabun M. Taylor,Rabun Taylor,Katherine Rinne,Spiro Kostof
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107013995

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Rome by Rabun M. Taylor,Rabun Taylor,Katherine Rinne,Spiro Kostof Pdf

This is the first urban history of Rome to span its entire three-thousand-year history. It examines the processes by which Rome's leaders have shaped its urban fabric by organizing space, planning infrastructure, designing ritual, controlling populations, and exploiting Rome's standing as a seat of global power and a religious capital.

Author : Torgil Magnuson
Publisher : Paul Astroms Forlag
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015060590919

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The Urban Transformation of Medieval Rome, 312-1420 by Torgil Magnuson Pdf

Author : Hendrik Dey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108985697

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The Making of Medieval Rome by Hendrik Dey Pdf

Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving remains and, most importantly, with the results of the past half-century's worth of medieval archaeology in the city, The Making of Medieval Rome is the first in-depth profile of Rome's transformation over a millennium to appear in any language in over forty years. Though the main focus rests on Rome's urban trajectory in topographical, architectural, and archaeological terms, Hendrik folds aspects of ecclesiastical, political, social, military, economic, and intellectual history into the narrative in order to illustrate how and why the cityscape evolved as it did during the thousand years between the end of the Roman Empire and the start of the Renaissance. A wide-ranging synthesis of decades' worth of specialized research and remarkable archaeological discoveries, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in how and why the ancient imperial capital transformed into the spiritual heart of Western Christendom.

Author : Luke Lavan
Publisher : Late Antique Archaeology (Supp
Page : 1746 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9004413723

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Public Space in the Late Antique City by Luke Lavan Pdf

V. 1. Streets, processions, fora, agorai, macella, shops -- v. 2. Sites, buildings, dates.