Theory And Practice In Late Antique Archaeology

Author : Luke A. Lavan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004125674
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology written by Luke A. Lavan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter Sarris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113945904X
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian written by Peter Sarris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian (527–65) stands out in late Roman and medieval history. Justinian re-conquered far-flung territories from the barbarians, overhauled the Empire's administrative framework and codified for posterity the inherited tradition of Roman law. This work represents a modern study in English of the social and economic history of the Eastern Roman Empire in the reign of the Emperor Justinian. Drawing upon papyrological, numismatic, legal, literary and archaeological evidence, the study seeks to reconstruct the emergent nature of relations between landowners and peasants, and aristocrats and emperors in the late antique Eastern Empire. It provides a social and economic context in which to situate the Emperor Justinian's mid-sixth-century reform programme, and questions the implications of the Eastern Empire's pattern of social and economic development under Justinian for its subsequent, post-Justinianic history.

Author : Adam Rogers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139499513
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Roman Towns in Britain written by Adam Rogers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Adam Rogers examines the late Roman phases of towns in Britain. Critically analysing the archaeological notion of decline, he focuses on public buildings, which played an important role, administrative and symbolic, within urban complexes. Arguing against the interpretation that many of these monumental civic buildings were in decline or abandoned in the later Roman period, he demonstrates that they remained purposeful spaces and important centres of urban life. Through a detailed assessment of the archaeology of late Roman towns, this book argues that the archaeological framework of decline does not permit an adequate and comprehensive understanding of the towns during this period. Moving beyond the idea of decline, this book emphasises a longer-term perspective for understanding the importance of towns in the later Roman period.

Author : Amelia R. Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786733587
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corinth in Late Antiquity written by Amelia R. Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William Bowden
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047407601
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity - Volume 3.1 written by William Bowden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines the social and political structures of the late antique period and the ways in which they are manifested in the archaeological and textual record.

Author : Luke Lavan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004423826
Total Pages : 1737 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Space in the Late Antique City (2 vols.) written by Luke Lavan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 1737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004309772
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field Methods and Post-Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Carlos Machado
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192571958
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome written by Carlos Machado and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004299041
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (4th – 7th cent.) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City, historians, archaeologists and historians of religion provide studies of the phenomenon of the Christianization of the Roman Empire within the context of the transformations and eventual decline of the Greco-Roman city. The eleven papers brought together here aim to describe the possible links between religious, but also political, economic and social mutations engendered by Christianity and the evolution of the antique city. Combining a multiplicity of sources and analytical approaches, this book seeks to measure the impact on the city of the progressive abandonment of traditional cults to the advantage of new Christian religious practices.

Author : Carlos Machado
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429763123
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity written by Carlos Machado and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers “lived space” as a scholarly approach to the past, showing how spatial approaches can present innovative views of the world of Late Antiquity, integrating social, economic and cultural developments and putting centre stage this fundamental dimension of social life. Bringing together an international group of scholars working on areas as diverse as Britain, the Iberian Peninsula, Jordan and the Horn of Africa, this book includes burgeoning fields of study such as lived spaces in the context of ships and seafaring during this period. Chapters investigate the history, function and use of different spaces in their own right and identify the social and historical logic presiding over continuity and/or change. They also explore the fluidity of lived space in both its physical and conceptual dimensions, analysing issues like agency and intentionality as well as meaning and social relations. Space is the fundamental dimension of social life, the arena where it unfolds and the stage where social values and hierarchies are represented; analysis of space allows us to understand history through different means of shaping, occupying and controlling space. Considering Late Antiquity through a spatial perspective offers a complex and stimulating picture of this pivotal period, and this volume provides avenues for the development of further research and discussion in this area. Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity is a fascinating resource for students and scholars interested in space and spatiality in the late antique world, as well as archaeology, classical studies and late antique studies more generally.