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 / edited by Emanuele E. Intagliata, Simon J. Barker and Christopher Courault.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Intagliata, Emanuele Ettore, editor.

Barker, Simon J., editor.

Courault, Christopher, editor.

Conference Name:

Constructing City Walls in Late Antiquity: an empire-wide perspective (2018 : Rome, Italy), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City walls--Rome--Congresses.

City walls.

Fortification, Roman--Congresses.

Fortification, Roman.

Rome--Antiquities, Roman--Congresses.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, maps

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxbow Books, [2020]

Summary:

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 monumental scale, as well as the cost of labour and material, are easily comparable to projects from the High Empire; however, urban circuits provided late-antique towns with a new means of self-representation. While their final appearance and construction techniques varied greatly, the cost involved and the dramatic impact that such projects had on the urban topography of late-antique cities mark city walls as one of the most important urban initiatives of the period. 0To-date, research on city walls in the two halves of the empire has highlighted chronological and regional variations, enabling scholars to rethink how and why urban circuits were built and functioned in Late Antiquity. Although these developments have made a significant contribution to the understanding of late-antique city walls, studies are often concerned with one single monument/small group of monuments or a particular region, and the issues raised do not usually lead to a broader perspective, creating an artificial divide between east and west. It is this broader understanding that this book seeks to provide.0The volume and its contributions arise from a conference held at the British School at Rome and the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome on June 20-21, 2018. It includes articles from world-leading experts in late-antique history and archaeology and is based around important themes that emerged at the conference, such as construction, spolia-use, late-antique architecture, culture and urbanism, empire-wide changes in Late Antiquity, and the perception of this practice by local inhabitants.

Contents:

Approaching late-antique city walls through an Empire-wide perspective / Emanuele E. Intagliata, Christopher Courault and Simon J. Barker

Late Roman city walls in Hispania. A reappraisal / Carmen Fernández-Ochoa and Angel Morillo

The City Walls of Lusitania revisited: a current perspective / Adriaan De Man

Urban defences in late Roman Gaul : civic monuments or state installations / Simon Esmonde Cleary

The late Roman city walls in southern Gaul / Marc Heijmans

Power and Glory: ceremonial gates in Constantinople and the Balkans: prototypes and legacy / James Crow

An exceptional city wall? Re-thinking the fortifications of Nicaea in an empire-wide context / Ayşe Dalyancı-Berns

Defending a New Capital: Ravenna, Classe, and the Revival of the Construction Industry in Late Antiquity / J. Riley Snyder

Dismantling, re-carving and re-using: some observations about the late antique city wall of Agedincum / Pierre-Antoine Lamy and Mathieu Ribolet

A statement on the late antique city walls of Córdoba / Christopher Courault

The Wall Circuit of Segni in Late Antiquity: Urban and Topographic Issues / Francesco Maria Cifarelli and Federica Colaiacomo

The revivification of earthen outworks in the late Eastern Empire: the case study of Resafa, Syria / Catharine Hof

The fortifications of Zenobia reinterpreted / Sylvie Blétry

Disuse, re-use, and misuse of the early Byzantine fortress at Isthmia / Jon Frey

Popes, senators, barons, and popes again: the Aurelian Wall from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries / Hendrik Dey.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed June 12, 2025).

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789253672

1789253675

9781789253658

1789253659

OCLC:

1430662802