Social and political life in late Antiquity / edited by William Bowden, Adam Gutteridge and Carlos Machado.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowden, William.

Gutteridge, Adam

Machado, Carlos

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Late antique archaeology ; 3.

Late antique archaeology ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history--To 500.

Social history.

Social change--Political aspects--History--To 1500.

Social change.

Power (Social sciences)--History--To 1500.

Power (Social sciences).

Social classes--History--To 1500.

Social classes.

Social archaeology.

Archaeology and history.

History.

Social change--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

xxx, 656 pages : illustrations, maps, ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill ; Biggleswade : Extenza Turpin [distributor], 2006.

Summary:

This book examines a number of themes relating to social and political life in Late Antiquity. The first part of the book considers how the powers of the emperor, state and civic authorities were expressed in the phyiscal environment, and how coinage and material culture were caught up in the political life of the period. The second part investigates the "middle classes" and "the poor", who are often less visible in archaeological, textual and epigraphic records. Other articles consider such topics as long term social evolution and the definition of time in Late Antiquity. Two extensive bibliographic essays provide an overview of published literature relating to social and political life.

Contents:

Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity: an Introduction / Adam Gutteridge, Carlos Machado xv

Political Life in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay / Luke Lavan 3

Social Life in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay / Lukas Schachner 41

The Roman State: From Identity to Policy

Constructing Roman Identities in Late Antiquity? Material Culture on the Western Frontier / Ellen Swift 97

Coins and Politics in the Late Roman World / Richard Reece 113

The Emperor and his Monuments

Civil War and Public Dissent: the State Monuments of the Decentralised Roman Empire / Emanuel Mayer 141

Building the Past: Monuments and Memory in the Forum Romanum / Carlos Machado 157

The City: Social and Political Change

Fora and Agorai in Mediterranean Cities during the 4th and 5th c. A.D. / Luke Lavan 195

The Control of Public Space and the Transformation of an Early Medieval town: a Re-examination of the Case of Brescia / Gian Pietro Brogiolo 251

Churches and Power

Architecture and Power: Churches in Northern Italy from the 4th to the 6th c. / Gisella Cantino Wataghin 287

Dark Age Rome: Towards an Interactive Topography / Kate Cooper, Julia Hilner, Conrad Leyser 311

A New Temple for Byzantium: Anicia Juliana, King Solomon and the gilded ceiling in the Church of St Polyeuktos in Constantinople / Jonathan Bardill 339

The Middle Class

Artisans and Traders in the Early Byzantine City: Exploring the Limits of Archaeological Evidence / Enrico Zanini 373

Middle Class Houses in Late Antiquity / Simon Ellis 413

The Poor in Texts

Constructed and Consumed: Everyday Life of the Poor in 4th c. Cappadocia / Susan Holman 441

Poverty and Society in the World of John Chrysostom / Wendy Mayer 465

The Poor and Archaeology

The Urban Poor: Finding the Marginalised / Steve Roskams 487

Rural Impoverishment in Northern Gaul at the End of Antiquity: the Contribution of Archaeology / Paul Van Ossel 533

Socio-Cultural Change

Some Aspects of Social and Cultural Time in Late Antiquity / Adam Gutteridge 569

Social Transformation in the 6th-9th c. East / John Haldon 603.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9004144145

OCLC:

73957482

Publisher Number:

9789004144149