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The Afterlife of the Roman City: Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Hendrik W. Dey
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Description for The Afterlife of the Roman City: Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
hardcover. This book offers a new perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Num Pages: 296 pages, 12 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 38 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3H; ACG; AMX; HBLA1; HBLC1; HDDM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 178 x 262 x 18. Weight in Grams: 862.
This book offers a new and surprising perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (third to ninth centuries AD). It suggests that the tenacious persistence of leading cities across most of the Roman world is due, far more than previously thought, to the persistent inclination of kings, emperors, caliphs, bishops, and their leading subordinates to manifest the glory of their offices on an urban stage, before crowds of city dwellers. Long after the dissolution of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, these communal leaders continued to maintain and ... Read more
This book offers a new and surprising perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (third to ninth centuries AD). It suggests that the tenacious persistence of leading cities across most of the Roman world is due, far more than previously thought, to the persistent inclination of kings, emperors, caliphs, bishops, and their leading subordinates to manifest the glory of their offices on an urban stage, before crowds of city dwellers. Long after the dissolution of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, these communal leaders continued to maintain and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107069183
SKU
V9781107069183
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99-12
About Hendrik W. Dey
Hendrik W. Dey is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College, City University of New York. Previously he held a two-year Rome Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome and an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery in Washington, DC. ... Read more
Reviews for The Afterlife of the Roman City: Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
'This is an outstanding work of scholarship that follows a bright and lustrous thread of urban life – the celebration of rulership - with some remarkably fresh insights. … Written in a style that is clear, animated and enjoyable, his argument is everywhere brought to life with the archaeology of city spaces and with literary and documentary sources that describe ... Read more