Format:
1 online resource (473 pages)
ISBN:
9789047401490
Content:
An exploration of theoretical frameworks, methodology and field practice suited to the late antique Mediterranean. Broad themes such as long-term change, topography, the economy and social life are covered, but in terms of the issues and problems being tackled by scholars of late antiquity.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Late Antique Archaeology: An Introduction -- PART ONE: IDEOLOGIES AND AGENDAS -- Ideologies and Agendas in Late Antique Studies -- PART TWO: SOCIAL LIFE -- Archaeology and Late Antique Social Structures -- The Construction of Identities in post-Roman Albania -- Some Aspects of the Transformation of the Roman Domus between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages -- PART THREE: THE ECONOMY -- Late Antique Trade: Research Methodologies & Field Practices -- Coins and the Late Roman Economy -- PART FOUR: TOPOGRAPHY -- Late Antique Urban Topography: From Architecture to Human Space -- The Urban Ideal and Urban Planning in Byzantine New Cities of the Sixth Century A.D. -- Christian Topography in the Late Antique Town: Recent Results and Open Questions -- Topographies of Production in North African Cities during the Vandal and Byzantine Periods -- Archaeological Survey and Visualisation: The View from Byzantium -- The Political Topography of the Late Antique City: Activity Spaces in Practice -- PART FIVE: SPOLIA -- Attitudes to Spolia in some Late Antique Texts -- Valenza Del Reimpiego: Il Caso di Efeso -- PART SIX: DECLINE AND FALL? STUDYING LONG-TERM CHANGE -- Studying Long-term Change in the West, A.D. 400-800 -- Decline and Fall? Studying Long-term Change in the East -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004125674
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004125674
Additional Edition:
Print version Theory and practice in late antique archaeology
Language:
English
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