ISBN:
9789004422612
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (118 pages)
Series Statement:
Brill Research Perspectives Ser.
Series Statement:
Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Ser.
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
307.760940902
Keywords:
Cities and towns, Ancient
;
Cities and towns, Medieval
;
City and town life-History
;
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Abstract:
This study examines how cities have become an area of significant historical debate about late antiquity, challenging accepted notions that it is a period of dynamic change and reasserting views of the era as one of decline and fall.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Cities and the Meanings of Late Antiquity -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction: a Tale of Two Cities? -- 2 Sources and Debates: Discovering the City in Late Antiquity -- 3 What Was a City in Late Antiquity? -- 3.1 Rhetorical Constructions: Defining Cities and Identities -- 3.2 New Definitions of the City in Late Antiquity -- 4 Cities and the State in Late Antiquity -- 4.1 Cities and the Imperial Court -- 4.2 Space, Ritual, and Power: Making Imperial Constantinople -- 4.3 Adventus Ceremonial and Ruler Interactions with Cities -- 4.4 Imperial Cities and Absent Emperors -- 4.5 Cities after Empire -- 5 Cities and the Transformation of the Ancient Economy -- 5.1 Sources, Statistics, and Stories -- 5.2 A Tale of Many Cities -- 5.3 Cities and the Late-Antique Countryside -- 6 Religion and the City -- 6.1 Religious Change and Urban Governance: the Rise of the Bishop -- 6.2 The Making of Christian Cities -- 6.3 Sects in the City: Urban Change and Religious Conflict -- 7 Space, Sense, and Performance: Material Remains and Urban Populations -- 7.1 The Performance of Social Hierarchy -- 7.2 Social Habits and Topographic Change -- 7.3 Coda: the Late-Antique City as a Sensory Space -- 8 Cities and the Meanings of Late Antiquity: Decline, Fall, Transformation, or Rise? -- 8.1 Decline, Fall, Transformation, or Rise? -- 8.2 Whose Cities and Whose Late Antiquity: a Tale of Multiple Cities? -- 8.3 Concluding Observations: the Future of the Late-Antique City -- Appendix: Recent Studies of the Late-Antique City -- Acknowledgements -- References.
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