(Re)using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600 Douglas R. Underwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Underwood, Douglas R..

Series:

Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series) 3.

Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series) ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public buildings.

Buildings--Remodeling for other use.

Buildings.

Cities and towns, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

In (Re)using Ruins , Douglas Underwood presents a new account of the use and reuse of Roman urban public monuments in a crucial period of transition, A.D. 300-600. Commonly seen as a period of uniform decline for public building, especially in the western half of the Mediterranean, (Re)using Ruins shows a vibrant, yet variable, history for these structures. Douglas Underwood establishes a broad catalogue of archaeological evidence (supplemented with epigraphic and literary testimony) for the construction, maintenance, abandonment and reuses of baths, aqueducts, theatres, amphitheatres and circuses in Italy, southern Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, demonstrating that the driving force behind the changes to public buildings was largely a combined shift in urban ideologies and euergetistic practices in Late Antique cities.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page / Douglas Underwood

Dedication / Douglas Underwood

Preface / Doug Underwood

Figures / Douglas Underwood

Abbreviations / Douglas Underwood

Introduction / Douglas Underwood

Late Antiquity and the City / Douglas Underwood

Baths, Aqueducts and Water / Douglas Underwood

Spectacle Buildings / Douglas Underwood

Reuse and Public Buildings / Douglas Underwood

Analysis and Discussion / Douglas Underwood

Conclusion / Douglas Underwood

Late Antique Archaeology / Douglas Underwood

Back Matter

Timeline of Dates and Events / Douglas Underwood

Benefaction in the Western Empire / Douglas Underwood

Roman Public Monuments in the Late Antique West / Douglas Underwood

Bibliography / Douglas Underwood

Indices / Douglas Underwood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-39053-7

OCLC:

1066198999

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004390539 DOI