Title & Author:

Housing in late antiquity : from palaces to shops / edited by Luke Lavan [and others].

Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2007.

Description:

538 pages.

Series:

Late antique archaeology ; vol. 3,2

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Late antique housing and the uses of residential buildings: an overview / Simon Ellis -- Housing in late antiquity: thematic perspectives / Inge Uytterhoeven -- Housing in late antiquity: regional perspectives / Inge Uytterhoeven -- Domus in Qua Manebat Episcopus: Episcopal residences in Northern Italy during late antiquity (4th to 6th c. A.D.) / Yuri A. Marano -- Architecture and church power in late antiquity: Canosa and San Giusto (Apulia) / Guliano Volpe -- Episkopeia in Asia Minor / Burcu Ceylan -- Private space in late antique cities: laws and building procedures / Isabella Baldini Lippolis -- Public use and privacy in late antique houses in Asia Minor: the architecture of spatial control / Lale Özgenel -- Shedding light on late Roman housing / Simon Ellis -- The urban domus in late antique Hispania: examples from Emerita, Barcino and Complutum / Javier Arce, Alexandra Chavarria, Gisela Ripoll -- Late antique domus of Africa Proconsularis: structural and decorative aspects / Francesca Ghedini, Silvia Bullo -- Domus and villa: late antique housing in Carthage and its territory / Jeremy J. Rossiter -- Cappadocia's rock-cut courtyard complexes: a case study for domestic architecture in Byzantium / Veronica Kalas -- A late Roman house at Éauze (Cieutat) France / Simon Esmonde Cleary -- The palace of Theoderic at Ravenna: a new analysis of the complex / Andrea Augenti -- The Triconch Palace at Butrint: the life and death of a late Roman Domus / William Bowden, John Mitchell -- The house of the Lycian Acropolis at Xanthos / Anne-Marie Maniére-Levêque -- Two late antique residential complexes at Sagalassos / Marc Waelkens at al. -- The excavation of an Umayyad period house at Pella in Jordan / Alan Walmsley.

Summary:

These papers survey developments in Mediterranean housing from the fourth to sixth centuries AD, with some addressing later and less well known periods. Among the topics are episcopal residences in northern Italy, the architecture of spatial control for public use and privacy in Asia Minor, Carthage and its territory, and an Umayyad period house at Pella in Jordan.

Resources:
1850-9999

ISBN:

9789004162280 (hardback)
9004162283 (hardback)

ISSN:

1570-6893

Subject:

Architecture, Ancient Mediterranean Region History.
Cities and towns, Ancient Mediterranean Region History.
Dwellings Mediterranean Region History.
Housing Mediterranean Region History.
Architecture, Ancient.
Cities and towns, Ancient.
Dwellings.
Housing.
architecture religieuse épiscopat (dignité d'évêque) Méditerranée (bassin) 4e s. 6e s. congrès.
maison Méditerranée (bassin) 4e s. 6e s. congrès.
villa romaine antique Méditerranée (bassin) 4e s. 6e s. congrès.
Mediterranean Region History 476-1517.
Mediterranean Region History To 476.
Méditerranée, Région de la Histoire 476-1517.
Méditerranée, Région de la Histoire Jusqu'à 476.
Mediterranean Region.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Lavan, Luke.
Late antique archaeology ; 3,2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258396
Call No.: BIB 189166
Status: Available