The Idea and Ideal of the Town Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-10901-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Transformation of the Roman World

This volume examines the changing perceptions and ideals of town life, from the classical civitas/polis (the lynch-pin of ancient civilisation) to the medieval city (still playing many central roles, but with less of the ideological charge characteristic of Antiquity).
One central theme is the persistent 'shadow' of the ancient city - in crumbling ancient buildings, and the survival of Roman styles of urban lay-out; and in the way that cities were depicted both visually (in persistence of often outmoded classical terms and descriptions), and verbally (in the persistence of often outmoded classical terms and descriptions).
Yet the ideal of the city was also changing and developing, especially around the idea of a new, specifically Christian city, protected by its saints and by its churches.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brogiolo

Ward-Perkins

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A. Orselli, L'idée de la ville dans l'antiquité tardive
N. Gauthier, La topographie chrétienne entre idéologie et pragmatisme
G. Cantino Wataghin, The Ideology of Urban Burial
B. Ward-Perkins, Christianising Pagan Buildings
C.Bertelli, Iconographical Models of Towns
J. Arce, The Foundation of New Cities in the Roman/Early Medieval Period: Models and Functions
J. Haldon, The Idea of the Town in the Byzantine Empire
W. Brandes, Byzantinische Städte im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert - Verschiedene Quellen, Verschiedene Geschichten?
R. Hillenbrand, The Ummayad City: The Case of Anjar
G.P. Brogiolo, Image and Reality in Early Medieval Italy

Über Autor(innen)

Gian Pietro Brogiolo teaches Medieval Archaeology at the University of Padua. His interests are in towns and countryside of early medieval Italy, and he has excavated extensively in Lombardy, particularly at Brescia and Monte Barro. He has published numerous articles on the cities of Byzantine and Lombard Italy, and is the author of Brescia altomedievale. Urbanistica ed edilizia dal IV al IX secolo (1993).
Bryan Ward-Perkins is a Lecturer in Medieval History at Oxford University and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively on the towns of early medieval Italy and is the author of From Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Urban Public Building in Northern and Central Italy (1984). He is an editor of the Cambridge Ancient History Volume XIV.