Title & Author:

Urban centers and rural contexts in late antiquity / edited by Thomas S. Burns and John W. Eadie.

Publication:

Description:

xxvii, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Contributions to the Third Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, Emory University, March 1999.
Includes bibliographical references.
Difficillima tempora : urban life, inscriptions, and mentality in late antique Rome / G. Alföldy -- Autun and the civitas aeduorum : maintaining and transforming a regional identity in late antiquity / B.K. Young -- Alexandria and the Mareotis region / C. Haas -- The case of late antique Berytus : urban wealth and rural sustenance : a different economic dynamic / L.J. Hall -- Urban space in Caesarea Maritima, Israel / J. Patrich -- Byzantine petra : a reassessment / Z.T. Fiema -- Women and horses and power and war / J.F. Drinkwater -- The interdependence of town and country in late antique Spain / M. Kulikowski -- Towns, vici and villae : late Roman military society on the frontiers of the province Valeria / Z. Visy -- Archaeological perspectives on rural settlement in late antiquity in the Rhine and Danube area / H. Bender -- Peasants as 'makeshift soldiers for the occasion' : sixth-century settlement patterns in the Balkans / F. Curta -- Town and countryside in Roman Arabia during late antiquity / D.F. Graf -- Rural society and economy in late Roman Cyprus / M. Rautman -- Pastoral care : town and country in late-antique preaching / E.G. Clark -- The continuity of paganism between the cities and countryside of late Roman Africa / D. Riggs -- From pagan to Christian in cities of Roman Anatolia during the fourth and fifth centuries / K. Harl -- ' ... Nec sedere in villam' : villa churches, rural piety and the Priscillianist controversy / K. Bowers -- Christianizing the Syrian countryside : an archaeological and architectural approach / F.L. Kidner.
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Summary:

Recent publications on urbanism and the rural environment in Late Antiquity have emphasized either textual or archaeological evidence. None has attempted the more ambitious task of bringing together the full range of such evidence within a multiregional perspective and around common themes. Urban Centers and Rural Contexts seeks to redress this omission. The essays in this volume require us to abandon the search for a single model of urban and rural change; to reevaluate the cities and towns of the Empire as centers of habitation, rather than archaeological museums; and to reconsider the evidence of continuous and pervasive cultural change across the countryside. Deploying a wide range of material as well as literary evidence, the authors provide access not only into the world of elites, but also to the scarcely known lives of those without a voice in the literature, those men and women who worked in the shops, labored in the fields, and humbled themselves before their gods. They bring us closer to the complexity of life in late ancient communities and, in consequence, closer to both urban and rural citizens. [publisher].

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ISBN:

0870135856 (paperback)
9780870135859 (paperback)

Subject:

Cities and towns Rome Congresses.
Cities and towns.
Steden.
Platteland.
Late oudheid.
Cities and towns, Ancient Congresses.
Rome (Empire)

Form/genre:

Congresses.
Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Burns, Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel), 1945-
Eadie, John William.
Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (3rd : 1999 : Emory University)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219334
Call No.: HT114 .U7 2001
Status: Available