(Re)using ruins : public building in the cities of the late antique West, A.D. 300-600
Title:
(Re)using ruins : public building in the cities of the late antique West, A.D. 300-600
Reusing ruins : public building in the cities of the late antique West, A.D. 300-600
Using ruins : public building in the cities of the late antique West, A.D. 300-600
Public building in the cities of the late antique West, A.D. 300-600
Late antique archaeology (supplementary series),
Late antique archaeology. Supplementary series ;
Author:
Underwood, Douglas, author.
ISBN:
9789004319691
9789004390539
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
xv, 268 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm.
Series:
Late antique archaeology (supplementary series), Volume 3
Late antique archaeology. Supplementary series ; v. 3.
General Note:
| Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of St. Andrews, 2015, under the title: Using and reusing the monumental past in the late antique Mediterranean West, 300-600. |
Contents:
Late antiquity and the city -- Baths, aqueducts and water -- Spectacle buildings -- Reuse and public buildings -- Analysis and discussion -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Timeline of dates and events -- Appendix B. Benefaction in the western Empire -- Appendix C: Roman public monuments in the Late Antique West.
Abstract:
"In (Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood presents a new account of the use and reuse of Roman urban public monuments in a crucial period of transition, A.D. 300-600. Commonly seen as a period of uniform decline for public building, especially in the western half of the Mediterranean, (Re)using Ruins shows a vibrant, yet variable, history for these structures. Douglas Underwood establishes a broad catalogue of archaeological evidence (supplemented with epigraphic and literary testimony) for the construction, maintenance, abandonment and reuses of baths, aqueducts, theatres, amphitheatres and circuses in Italy, southern Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, demonstrating that the driving force behind the changes to public buildings was largely a combined shift in urban ideologies and euergetistic practices in Late Antique cities."-- Publisher's website.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-259) and indexes.
Field 805:
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