| The City in Late Antiquity Revised Edition Contributor(s): Rich, John (Editor) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0415144310 ISBN-13: 9780415144315 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1996 Annotation: The Roman Empire in its early centuries was a world of cities, dominated by landowning elites and conforming to a common pattern in their institutions, buildings and culture. In "The City in Late Antiquity" archaeologists and historians bring together their two disciplines to discuss what became of these cities, after the crisis of the third century and the later collapse of the Empire. While the classical city has often been portrayed as in decline everywhere by the fourth century, this book shows this picture to be too simplistice. In some regions, such as Africa, old customs were still vigorous, while elsewhere, for example in Britain, urban life disappeared and the cities survived only as fortresses, if at all. This book pays particular attention to the impact of the Christianization of the Empire on the cities. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Rome - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
| Dewey: 307.76 |
| Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.46" W x 8.45" (0.71 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The city was the nexus of the Roman Empire in its early centuries. The City in Late Antiquity charts the change undergone by cities as the Empire was weakened by the third-century crisis, and later disintegrated under external pressures. The old picture of the classical city as everywhere in decline by the fourth century is shown to be far too simple, and John Rich seeks to explain why urban life disappeared in some regions, while elsewhere cities survived through to the Middle Ages and beyond. |