Hispania in late antiquity : current perspectives / / edited and translated by Kim Bowes and Michael Kulikowski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784190703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boston : , : Brill, , 2005
• ISBN: 1-280-86811-2; 9786610868117; 1-4294-5309-5; 90-474-0752-0; 1-4337-0720-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (660 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Collana: The medieval and early modern Iberian world ; ; v. 24
• Altri autori (Persone): BowesKimberly Diane <1970->; KulikowskiMichael <1970->
• Disciplina: 946/.01
• Soggetti: Romans - Spain; Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Spain History Roman period, 218 B.C.-414 A.D; Spain Civilization To 711; Spain Church history
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [557]-624) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "Cities and government in late antique Hispania : recent advances and future research" / Michael Kulikowski -- "Genere hispanus' : Theodosius, Spain, and Nicene orthodoxy" / Neil McLynn -- "Heresy and orthodoxy in fourth-century Hispania : Arianism and Priscillianism" / Victoria Escribano -- "Angelorum participes : the cult of the saints in late antique Spain" / Pedro Castillo Maldonado -- "Un coterie espagnole pieuse : Christian archaeology and Christian communities in fourth- and fifth-century Hispania" / Kim Bowes -- "The Cantabrian Basin in the fourth and fifth centuries : from imperial province to periphery" / Pablo C. Diaz and Luís R. Menéndez-Bueyes -- "Walls in the urban landscape of late Roman Spain : defense and imperial strategy" / Carmen Fernández-Ochoa and Angel Morillo -- Spain and the African provinces in late antiquity / Javier Arce -- "Hispania in the later Roman ; Mediterranean : ceramics and trade" / Paul Reynolds -- "Coinage, iconography, and the changing political geography of fifth-century Hispania" / Fernando López Sánchez -- "Villas in Hispania during the fourth and fifth centuries" / Alexandra Chavarría Arnau.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of essays on late Roman Hispania describes the relationships between the peninsula and the rest of the late antique world. Its contributors - archaeologists, historians, and historians of art - address both the historical evidence and the complex historiography of late antique Hispania.