Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity

Volume 1: Thematic Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-68795-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13/1, 438 Seiten, Format (B × H): 217 mm x 303 mm, Gewicht: 1988 g

Reihe: Late Antique Archaeology

Burial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology, A.D. 284–650, across the late antique world. This first volume includes an overview of research, and papers exploring bioarchaeology, mortuary rituals, mausolea, and funerary landscapes. It considers the sacralisation of tombs, the movements of relics, and the political significance of cemeteries. The nature and fate of statue monuments is explored, as memorials to individuals. Authors also compare the destruction or preservation of tombs in relation to other buildings. Finally, the city itself is considered as a place of collective memory, where meanings were long maintained, via a study of spoliation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lavan, Luke

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Spätantike
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Burial and Memorial in Late Antiquity: Perspectives and Opportunities

Luke Lavan

Bioarchaeology

Recent Bioarchaeological Research on Early Medieval Cemeteries in Italy

Alexandra Chavarría Arnau, Leonardo Lamanna and Maurizio Marinato

Treatment of the Body

“To Make the Unseen Seen”: Organic Residue Analysis of Late Roman Grave Deposits

Rhea C. Brettell, Eline M. J. Schotsmans, William H. C. Martin, Ben Stern and Carl P. Heron

The Colour of Death: Colour Symbolism and Burial in Roman Britain

Chloe Clark

Funeral Processions in Late Antiquity

Luke Lavan

Mausolea

Late Roman ‘Mausolea’ in Hispania

José Miguel Noguera Celdrán and Javier Arce

Mausolea in North-West Europe: the Transition from the Roman to Late Antique Periods

Christopher J. Sparey-Green

Late Roman Mausolea in Pannonia

Zsolt Magyar

Mausolea in Late Antique Italy

Mark J. Johnson

Changing Funerary Landscapes in Late Antiquity: Mausolea in North Africa

Julia Nikolaus

Funerary Landscapes

Funerary Landscapes in Catalonia (3rd–6th c. AD)

Judit Ciurana Prast

The Late Antique Funerary Landscape of Rome: 3rd to 4th c. AD

Barbara E. Borg

Burying the Saints Next to the Common Dead: the Burial Habits of the Christian Elite in the 4th c. and the First Translations of Relics

Efthymios Rizos

Topography and Ideology: Contested Episcopal Elections and Suburban Cemeteries in Late Antique Rome

Samuel Cohen

Other Memorials: Statue Monuments

The Archaeology of Late Antique Statue Monuments

Luke Lavan

The Many Lives of the Statue Bases of Lepcis Magna

Francesca Bigi and Ignazio Tantillo

Tombs and Spolia in City Walls

Memorial and Oblivion in Late Antiquity: the Testimony of Spolia in City Walls

Luke Lavan

The Destruction, Preservation, and Adaptive Reuse of Funerary Monuments within Urban Fortifications in Late Antiquity: the West

Douglas Underwood

The Destruction, Preservation, and Adaptive Reuse of Funerary Monuments in Urban Fortifications in Late Antiquity: the East

Nick Mishkovsky

Spolia in Late Antique City Walls: Catalogue 1: Africa and the East

Luke Lavan

Spolia in Late Antique City Walls: Catalogue 2: The West

Douglas Underwood and Luke Lavan

Spolia and Civic Memory

Urban Landscapes from Architectural Reuse: Spolia, Chronology and Civic Memory in Late Antique Ephesus

Luke Lavan

Abstracts in French

Volume 2

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Burial in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay

Part 1: Thematic and Regional Studies

Solinda Kamani and Luke Lavan

Burial in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay

Part 2: Key Sites

Solinda Kamani

Regional Perspectives

Aspects of Late Roman Burial Practice in Southern Britain

Paul Booth

Burial in Late Antiquity: Recent Evidence from Londinium

Victoria Ridgeway and Sadie Watson

New Cemetery Evidence from Late Roman Canterbury: the Former Hallet’s Garage Site in Context

Elizabeth Duffy, Adrian Gollop and Jake Weekes

Levis aesto terra – Early Christian Elite Burials from St. Maximin, Trier (Germany)

Nicole Reifarth, Hiltrud Merten, Wolf-Rüdiger Teegen, Jens Amendt, Ina Vanden Berghe, Carl Heron, Julian Wiethold, Ursula Drewello, Rainer Drewello and

Über Autor(innen)

Luke Lavan, Ph.D (2001), is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Kent. He is the series editor of Late Antique Archaeology, has directed excavation and survey at Ostia, and author of Public Space in the Late Antique City (2020).