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

Douglas R. Underwood (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2019
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-31969-1 (ISBN)

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In (Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood presents the history of Roman urban public monuments in the Late Antique West, demonstrating that their vibrant, yet variable, development was closely tied to significant shifts in urban ideologies and euergetistic patterns.

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.

Douglas Underwood, Ph.D. (2015), University of St Andrews, is an independent scholar, focusing on Roman and late antique urbanism. He has published articles and book chapters on aspects of that research including spolia, fortifications and public monuments.

Foreword

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction

Methods and Structure: Coverage

Methods and Structure: Approach and Evidence

Methods and Structure: Definitions

1 Late Antiquity and the City

Historical Background

Urban Evolutions in Late Antiquity

Conclusions

2 Baths, Aqueducts and Water

Introduction

Early Imperial Baths and Aqueducts

Baths in Late Antiquity

Aqueducts in Late Antiquity

Trends and Causes

Conclusions

3 Spectacle Buildings

Introduction

Early Imperial Spectacle Buildings

Spectacle Buildings in Late Antiquity

Trends and Causes

Conclusions

4 Reuse and Public Buildings

Past Study

Reuse in the Early Empire

Conceptualising and Categorising Reuse

The Reuse of Public Architecture in the Late Antique West,
ca.300–600

Overall Trends 165

Reuse and the Late Antique City

Conclusions

5 Analysis and Discussion

Explanations for the Demise and Reuse of this Group of Public

buildings

Public Buildings and the Late Antique City

Conclusion

Appendix I: Timeline of Dates and Events

Appendix II: Benefaction in the Western Empire

Appendix III: Tables

Bibliography

Ancient Textual Editions

Modern Sources

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.07.2019
Reihe/Serie	Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series) ; 3
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	908 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	90-04-31969-7 / 9004319697
ISBN-13	978-90-04-31969-1 / 9789004319691
Zustand	Neuware