Title & Author:

The idea and ideal of the town between late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages / edited by G.P. Brogiolo and Bryan Ward-Perkins.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [1999]
©1999

Description:

ix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

The transformation of the Roman world, 1386-4165 ; volume 4

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The idea of the town in the Byzantine Empire / John Haldon -- Byzantine cities in the seventh and eighth centuries: different sources, different histories? / W. Brandes -- ʻAnjar and early Islamic urbanism / R. Hillenbrand -- Ideas of the town in Italy during the transition from antiquity to the middle ages / G.P. Brogiolo -- Visual images of the town in late antiquity and the early middle ages / Carlo Bertelli -- The ideology of urban burials / G. Cantino Wataghin -- L'idée chrétienne de la ville: quelques suggestions pour l'antiquité tardive et le haut moyen age / Alba Maria Orselli -- La topographie chrétienne entre idéologie et pragmatisme / N. Gauthier -- Paganism and Christianity in Athens and vicinity during the fourth to sixth centuries A.D. / P. Castrén -- Re-using the architectural legacy of the past, entre idéologie et pragmatisme / Bryan Ward-Perkins -- Conclusions / G.P. Brogiolo.
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8 contributions in English and 2 in French.

Summary:

"This volume examines changing perceptions and ideals of town life, from the classical civitas/polis (the lynch-pin of ancient civilisation) to the medieval city (still playing many central roles, but with less of the ideological charge characteristic of Antiquity)." "One central theme is the persistent 'shadow' of the ancient city - in crumbling ancient buildings, and the survival of Roman styles of urban lay-out; and in the way that cities were depicted both visually (in iconography that changed only very slowly, if at all), and verbally (in the persistence of often outmoded classical terms and descriptions)." "Yet the ideal of the city was also changing and developing, especially around the idea of a new, specifically Christian city, protected by its saints and by its churches."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9004109013 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9789004109018 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Cities and towns, Medieval.
Cities and towns Byzantine Empire.
Cities and towns Rome.
Cities and towns Islamic Empire.
Civilization, Medieval.
Cities history
City Planning history
Civilization history
Villes médiévales.
Civilisation médiévale.
Cities and towns
Kongress
Stadt
Stadtforschung
Spätantike
Stadscultuur.
Steden.
Villes Moyen âge.
Villes Dans l'art.
Villes Dans la littérature.
Europe History 392-814.
Rome (Empire)
Islamic Empire
Europe
Byzantine Empire

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Kongress Oxford 1995.
History

Added entries:

Brogiolo, Gian Pietro, editor.
Ward-Perkins, Bryan, editor.
Transformation of the Roman world ; v. 4.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211941
Call No.: HT115 .I3 1999
Status: Available