New cities in Late Antiquity : documents and archaeology / edited by Efthymios Rizos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rizos, Efthymios, 1981- editor.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Series:

Bibliothèque de l'Antiquité tardive ; 35.

Bibliothèque de l'Ántiquité tardive ; 35

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns, Medieval--Congresses.

Cities and towns, Medieval.

Cities and towns, Ancient--Congresses.

Cities and towns, Ancient.

City and town life--History--To 1500--Congresses.

City and town life.

Urbanization--Congresses.

Urbanization.

Urban archaeology--Congresses.

Urban archaeology.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

297 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2017]

Language Note:

Contributions in English, French, and German.

Summary:

The foundation of new cities and towns is a particular aspect of urban history in Late Antiquity. Decades of archaeological work on sites like Iustiniana Prima, Dara, Rusafa, Androna and Zenobia provided ample material on specific cases, but we are still far from having a coherent picture of the background and impact of city foundations in Late Antiquity. Dictated by government decision or favoured by economic and demographic growth, newly-founded cities are witnesses of the realities, needs and ideals of urbanism in their own time and they provide a perspective which is quite different from the usual problems of transformation and decline of pre-existing Graeco-Roman cities. This volume, deriving from a workshop organized in Istanbul in November 2013, brings together studies by archaeologists working on sites that were founded or developed as urban centres during Late Antiquity (3rd to 7th century AD). On the base of case studies and synthetic approaches it is attempted to draw a comprehensive picture of the state of research and a theoretical discussion on the motives and characteristics of city-building and settlement development in Late Antiquity.

Contents:

Introduction / Efthymios Rizos

Aspects of settlement change in late antiquity from regional survey evidence / John Bintliff

New cities and new urban ideals, AD 250-350 / Efthymios Rizos

Castellum-Castrum-Civitas? L'évolution fonctionnelle des nouveaux établissements de l'antiquité tardive en Pannonie et en Mésie Seconde: étude comparative / Orsolya Heinrich-Tamáska

Topographie antique d'Amida (IIIe siècle après J.-C. - VIe siècle après J.-C.) d'après les sources littéraires / Martine Assénat et Antoine Pérez

Palmyra and its ramparts during the Terarchy / Emanuele E. Intagliata

Urban dynamics in the Bosphorus Region during Late Antiquity / Efthymios Rizos and Mustafa Hamdi Sayar

New cities of Late Antiquity: Theodosiopolis in Armenia / James Crow

Resafa/Syrien. Städtebauliche Entwicklung zwischen Kultort und Herrschaftssitz / Martin Gussone und Dorothée Sack

Urbanisme et l'habitat de la ville de Zénobia-Halabiya: résultats de la mission franco-syrienne (2006-10) / Sylvie Blétry

Recent research on Dara/Anastasiopolis / Eli̇f Keser-Kayaalp and Ni̇hat Erdoğan

Mokisos-eine kappadokische Fluchtsiedlung des sechsten Jahrhunderts / Albrecht Berger

Androna and the Late Antique cities of Oriens / Marlia Mundell Mango

Golemo Gradište at Konjuh: a new city or a relocated one? / Carolyn S. Snively

Main patterns of urbanism in Caričin Grad (Justiniana Prima) / Vujadin Ivanišević

Water supply in the Visigothic urban foundations of Eio (El Tolmo de Minateda) and Reccopolis / Javier Martínez Jiménez

'Built like a city' : Bogsak Island (Isauria) in Late Antiquity / Günder Vari̇nli̇oğlu

Palatia of Saria, a Late Antique 'Nēsopolis' of Provincia Insularum: a topographical survey / Georgios Deligiannakis and Vassileios Karabatsos

Kastro Apalirou, Naxos, a seventh-century urban foundation / David Hill, Håkon Roland and Knut Ødegård

Villes neuves dans l'Antiquité Tardive. Conclusion / Jean-Michel Spieser.

Notes:

"This volume stems from a conference held in Istanbul on 9-10 November 2013 under the auspices of the Netherlands Institute in Turkey and the Istanbul Department of the German Archaeological Institute."--page 7.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9782503555515

2503555519

OCLC:

911019835