City walls in late antiquity : an empire-wide perspective : proceedings of a conference held at the British School at Rome and the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome on 20-21 June 2018 /

The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late antique periods (300-600 AD) throughout the western and eastern empire. City walls were the most significant construction projects of their time and they redefined the urban landscape. Their appearance and monumen...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Constructing City Walls in Late Antiquity: an empire-wide perspective Rome, Italy
Otros Autores: Intagliata, Emanuele Ettore (Editor ), Barker, Simon J. (Editor ), Courault, Christopher (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2020.
Temas:
City walls > Rome > Congresses.
Fortification, Roman > Congresses.
Fortifications romaines > Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
City walls.
Classical antiquities.
Fortification, Roman.
Rome > Antiquities, Roman > Congresses.
Rome (Empire)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Emanuele E. Intagliata, Simon J. Barker and Christopher Courault
  • 1 Approaching late antique city walls with an empire-wide perspective / Emanuele E. Intagliata, Christopher Courault and Simon J. Barker
  • Section A. Regional trends
  • 2 Late Roman urban walls in Hispania: a reappraisal / Carmen Fernández Ochoa and Ángel Morillo
  • 3 The city walls of Lusitania revisited: a current perspective / Adriaan De Man
  • 4 Urban defences in late Roman Gaul: civic monuments or state installations / Simon Esmonde Cleary
  • 5 The late Roman city walls in southern Gaul / Marc Heijmans
  • Section B. City walls in old and new capitals
  • 6 Power and glory: ceremonial gates in Constantinople and the Balkans: prototypes and legacy / James Crow
  • 7 An exceptional city wall? Re-thinking the fortifications of Nicaea in an empire-wide context / Ayşe Dalyancı-Berns
  • 8 Defending a new capital: Ravenna, Classe, and the revival of the construction industry in late antiquity / J. Riley Snyder
  • Section C. Case studies: West and East
  • 9 Dismantling, re-carving, and re-using: some observations about the late antique city wall of Agedincum / Pierre-Antoine Lamy and Mathieu Ribolet
  • 10 A statement on the late antique city walls of Córdoba / Christopher Courault
  • 11 The wall circuit of Segni in late antiquity: urban and topographic issues / Francesco Maria Cifarelli and Federica Colaiacomo
  • 12 The revivification of earthen outworks in the late Eastern Empire: the case study of Resafa, Syria / Catharine Hof
  • 13 The fortifications of Zenobia reinterpreted / Sylvie Blétry
  • Section D. The afterlife of city walls
  • 14 Disuse, re-use, and misuse of the early Byzantine fortress at Isthmia / Jon M. Frey
  • 15 Popes, senators, barons, and popes again: the Aurelian wall from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries / Hendrik Dey.#x1E;

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