Urban centers and rural contexts in late antiquity [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Thomas S. Burns and John W. Eadie

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457368803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2001
• ISBN: 1-62895-222-9; 0-87013-898-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BurnsThomas S <1945-> (Thomas Samuel); EadieJohn William
• Disciplina: 307.76/0937
• Soggetti: Cities and towns - Rome; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Contributions to the Third Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, Emory University, March 1999.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Editors and Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Urban Centers; Difficillima tempora: Urban Life, Inscriptions, and Mentality in Late Antique Rome; Autun and the Civitas Aeduorum: Maintaining and Transforming a Regional Identity in Late Antiquity; Alexandria and the Mareotis Region; The Case of Late Antique Berytus: Urban Wealth and Rural Sustenance-A Different Economic Dynamic; Urban Space in Caesarea Maritima; Byzantine Petra-A Reassessment; Town and Country; Women and Horses and Power and War; The Interdependence of Town and Country in Late Antique Spain; Towns, Vici andvillae: Late Roman Military Society on the Frontiers of the Province ValeriaArchaeological Perspectives on Rural Settlement in Late Antiquity in the Rhine and Danube Area; Peasants as "Makeshift Soldiers for the Occasion": Sixth-Century Settlement Patterns in the Balkans; Town and Countryside in Roman Arabia during Late Antiquity; Rural Society and Economy in Late Roman Cyprus; Christianization; Pastoral Care: Town and Country in Late-Antique Preaching; The Continuity of Paganism between the Cities and Countryside of Late Roman Africa; From Pagan to Christian in Cites of Roman Anatolia during the Fourth and Fifth Centuries"... Net sedere in villam": Villa Churches, Rural Piety ; and the Priscillianist Controversy; Christianizing the Syrian Countryside: An Archaeological and Architectural Approach
• Sommario/riassunto: Recent publications on urbanism and the rural environment in Late Antiquity, most of which explore a single region or narrow chronological niche, have emphasized either textual or archeological evidence. None has attempted the more ambitious task of bringing together the full range of such evidence within a multiregional perspective and around common themes. Urban Centers and Rural Contexts seeks to redress this omission. While ancient literature and the physical remains of cities attest to the power that urban values held over the lives of their inhabitants, the rural areas in which th