Urban centers and rural contexts in late antiquity /

Urban centers and rural contexts in late antiquity /

Recent publications on urbanism and the rural environment in Late Antiquity, most of which explore a single region or narrow chronological niche, have emphasized either textual or archeological evidence. None has attempted the more ambitious task of bringing together the full range of such evidence...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity
Other Authors: Burns, Thomas S. 1945- (Editor), Eadie, John William (Editor)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Cities and towns > Rome > Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Table of Contents:
  • Difficillima tempora : urban life, inscriptions, and mentality in late antique Rome / G. Alföldy
  • Autun and the civitas aeduorum : maintaining and transforming a regional identity in late antiquity / B.K. Young
  • Alexandria and the Mareotis region / C. Haas
  • The case of late antique Berytus : urban wealth and rural sustenance : a different economic dynamic / L.J. Hall
  • Urban space in Caesarea Maritima, Israel / J. Patrich
  • Byzantine petra : a reassessment / Z.T. Fiema
  • Women and horses and power and war / J.F. Drinkwater
  • The interdependence of town and country in late antique Spain / M. Kulikowski
  • Towns, vici and villae : late Roman military society on the frontiers of the province Valeria / Z. Visy
  • Archaeological perspectives on rural settlement in late antiquity in the Rhine and Danube area / H. Bender
  • Peasants as 'makeshift soldiers for the occasion' : sixth-century settlement patterns in the Balkans / F. Curta
  • Town and countryside in Roman Arabia during late antiquity / D.F. Graf
  • Rural society and economy in late Roman Cyprus / M. Rautman
  • Pastoral care : town and country in late-antique preaching / E.G. Clark
  • The continuity of paganism between the cities and countryside of late Roman Africa / D. Riggs
  • From pagan to Christian in cities of Roman Anatolia during the fourth and fifth centuries / K. Harl
  • ' ... Nec sedere in villam' : villa churches, rural piety and the Priscillianist controversy / K. Bowers
  • Christianizing the Syrian countryside : an archaeological and architectural approach / F.L. Kidner.

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