Hendrik W. Dey

The Afterlife of the Roman City

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781107686335
• ISBN-10: 1107686334
• Artikelnr.: 53018282

Autorenporträt

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. He is the author of The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD 271-855 (Cambridge, 2011) and the co-editor, with Elizabeth Fentress, of Western Monasticism ante litteram: The Spaces of Monastic Observance in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (2011). He has written articles and book chapters for the Journal of Roman Archaeology, the Journal of Late Antiquity, Early Medieval Europe, Antiquité Tardive, The Cambridge History of Western Monasticism, Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum, and Storia dell'architettura in Italia da Costantino a Carlo Magno, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: urban living and the 'fall' of the Roman Empire; 2. New
urban forms for a new empire: the third century and the genesis of the late
antique city; 3. Ceremonial armatures: porticated streets and their
architectural appendages; 4. 'Dark ages' and the afterlife of the classical
city; 5. Postscript: architecture, ceremony, and monastic cities in
Carolingian Francia.