03286oam 2200493 450 991042094170332120230621141112.0(CKB)4100000011515706(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33509(EXLCZ)99410000001151570620201208c2020uuuu uu 0enguubu#---uuuuutxtrdacontentnrdamediancrdacarrierUrban interactions communication and competition in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages /Michael J. Kelly & Michael Burrows (editors)Brooklyn, NYpunctum books2020New York :punctum books,20201 online resource (437 pages) illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)Print version: 9781953035059 Includes bibliographical references and index.This volume is dedicated to eliciting the interactions between localities across late antique and early medieval Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Significant research has been done in recent years to explore how late “Roman” and post-“Roman” cities, towns and other localities communicated vis-à-vis larger structural phenomena, such as provinces, empires, kingdoms, institutions and so on. This research has contributed considerably to our understanding of the place of the city in its context, but tends to portray the city as a necessarily subordinate conduit within larger structures, rather than an entity in itself, or as a hermeneutical object of enquiry. Consequently, not enough research has been committed to examining how local people and communities thought about, engaged with, and struggled against nearby or distant urban neighbors.Urban Interactions addresses this lacuna in urban history by presenting articles that apply a diverse spectrum of approaches, from archaeological investigation to critical analyses of historiographical and historical biases and developmental consideration of antagonisms between ecclesiastical centers. Through these avenues of investigation, this volume elucidates the relationship between the urban centers and their immediate hinterlands and neighboring cities with which they might vie or collaborate. This entanglement and competition, whether subterraneous or explicit across overarching political, religious or other macro categories, is evaluated through a broad geographical range of late “Roman” provinces and post-“Roman” states to maintain an expansive perspective of developmental trends within and about the city.Urban InteractionsMedieval European archaeologybicsscUrban economicsbicsscearly middle ageslate antiquitymediterraneanvisigothsurbanismvandalscommerceumayyadsMedieval European archaeologyUrban economicsKelly Michael Jedt257273Kelly Michael J.Burrows MichaelUkMaJRUBOOK9910420941703321Urban interactions3389354UNINA