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This book is the first to closely examine the location of the earliest purpose-built Christian buildings inside the city of Rome in their contemporary context.
Author : Michael Mulryan
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 178491021X
This book is the first to closely examine the location of the earliest purpose-built Christian buildings inside the city of Rome in their contemporary context.
Author : Luke Lavan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1737 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004423826
This book looks at secular urban space in the Mediterranean city, A.D. 284-650, focusing on places where people from different religious and social group were obliged to mingle. It looks at streets, processions, fora/ agorai, market buildings, and shops.
Author : Michael Mulryan
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture, Early Christian
ISBN : 9781784910204
This book is the first to closely examine the location of the earliest purpose-built Christian buildings inside the city of Rome in their contemporary context. It argues that some of these were deliberately sited by their builders so as to utilise prominent positions within the urban landscape or to pragmatically reuse pre-existing bath facilities for Christian liturgical practice. Several examples are discussed with the latest archaeological discoveries explored. Two particular case studies are also examined within the Subura area of the city, and their urban location is examined in relation to the commercial, religious, social and public spaces around them, known through a 3rd century A.D. survey of the city. Certain other Christian basilicas in the city encroached or blocked roads, were situated by main arterial highways, were located on hills and eventually reused prestigious public buildings. Other examples were located by potent 'pagan' sites or important places of public congregation, with two structures suggesting the political astuteness of a 4th century pope. This book shows that the spatial Christianisation of Rome was not a random and haphazard process, but was at times a planned project that strategically built new Christian centres in places that would visually or practically enhance what were generally small and modest structures.
Author : Simon Esmonde Cleary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521196493
This book focuses on the archaeological evidence, allowing fresh perspectives and new approaches to the fate of the Roman West.
Author : Luke Lavan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9789004413726
This book investigates the nature of 'public space' in Mediterranean cities, A.D. 284-650, meaning places where it was impossible to avoid meeting people from all parts of society, whether different religious confessions or social groups. 0The first volume considers the architectural form and everyday functions of streets, fora / agorai, market buildings, and shops, including a study of processions and everyday street life. 0The second volume analyses archaeological evidence for the construction, repair, use, and abandonment of these urban spaces, based on standardised principles of phasing and dating. The conclusions provide insights into the urban environment of Constantinople, an assessment of urban institutions and citizenship, and a consideration of the impact of Christianity on civic life at this time.
Author : Mark Humphries
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9004422617
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.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 13,19 MB
Release : 2024-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9004687971
Burial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology A.D. 284-650, across the late antique world. This second volume includes papers exploring all aspects of funerary archaeology, from scientific samples in graves, to grave goods and tomb robbing and a bibliographic essay. It brings into focus neglected regions not usually considered by funerary archaeologists in NW Europe, such as the Levant, where burial archaeology is rich in grave good, to Sicily and Sardinia, where post-mortem offerings and burial manipulations are well-attested. We also hear from excavations in Britain, from Canterbury and London, and see astonishing fruits from the application of science to graves recently excavated in Trier.
Author : David K. Pettegrew
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0199369046
"This handbook brings together work by leading scholars of the archaeology of early Christianity in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The 34 essays to this volume ground the history, culture, and society of the first seven centuries of Christianity in the latest currents of archaeological method, theory, and research."--
Author : M.J. Vermaseren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9401505128
The publication of this Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis M ithriacae is due mainly to the activities of the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Wetenschappen, Kunsten en Schone Letteren (The Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences) at Brussels, for this work was begun as an entry in a compe tition organized by their Department of Fine Arts and Literature. It was then awarded a prize by a committee elected by the Academy and consisting of the theologian Prof. J. Coppens, the orientalist Prof. G. Rijckmans and the archaeolo gist, the late Prof. H. van de Weerd. Among the first who should be mentioned with respect and gratitude is my teacher Dr. F.J. de Waele, Professor in Archaeology and Ancient History at the Nijmegen University and member of the Royal Flemish Academy. This remarkable teacher inspired a deep interest in the study of Archaeology and of the Mithras cult, and his help has always been invaluable. I am also greatly indebted to the renowned Belgian scholar Prof. Franz Cumont. He was among the first to recognize the necessity of a revision of his standard work Textes et Monuments relatifs aux Mysteres de Mithra. During the last few years before his de'ath he showed a lively interest in the present study, supplied much material and often gave advice, devoting a great part of his leisure and his love of Classical Culture to this new publication of the Mithraic Monuments.
Author : Richard Andrew Bayliss
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
With the advent of Christianity, many symbols of paganism were removed or abandoned, and many public structures and buildings were the first to go.