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

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-31969-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 211 mm x 295 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series)

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Underwood, Douglas R

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Öffentliche Gebäude, Gewerbliche Bauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.