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Record Nr.

UNINA9911144046703321

Autore

Underwood Douglas R.

Titolo

(Re)using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600 / Douglas R. Underwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2019

ISBN

90-04-39053-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series) ; ; v. 3

Disciplina

307.760937

Soggetti

Public buildings

Buildings - Remodeling for other use

Cities and towns, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Copyright page / Douglas Underwood -- Dedication / Douglas Underwood -- Preface / Doug Underwood -- Figures / Douglas Underwood -- Abbreviations / Douglas Underwood -- Introduction / Douglas Underwood -- Late Antiquity and the City / Douglas Underwood -- Baths, Aqueducts and Water / Douglas Underwood -- Spectacle Buildings / Douglas Underwood -- Reuse and Public Buildings / Douglas Underwood -- Analysis and Discussion / Douglas Underwood -- Conclusion / Douglas Underwood -- Late Antique Archaeology / Douglas Underwood -- Back Matter -- Timeline of Dates and Events / Douglas Underwood -- Benefaction in the Western Empire / Douglas Underwood -- Roman Public Monuments in the Late Antique West / Douglas Underwood -- Bibliography / Douglas Underwood -- Indices / Douglas Underwood.

Sommario/riassunto

In (Re)using Ruins , Douglas Underwood presents a new account of the use and reuse of Roman urban public monuments in a crucial period of transition, A.D. 300-600. Commonly seen as a period of uniform decline for public building, especially in the western half of the Mediterranean, (Re)using Ruins shows a vibrant, yet variable, history for these structures. Douglas Underwood establishes a broad catalogue of archaeological evidence (supplemented with epigraphic and literary testimony) for the construction, maintenance, abandonment and reuses



of baths, aqueducts, theatres, amphitheatres and circuses in Italy, southern Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, demonstrating that the driving force behind the changes to public buildings was largely a combined shift in urban ideologies and euergetistic practices in Late Antique cities.