| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 319 pages : illustrations |
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text file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-313) and index. |
| Summary |
"This book focuses primarily on the end of the pagan religious tradition and the dismantling of its material in North Africa (modern Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD. Leone considers how urban communities changed, why some traditions were lost and some others continued, and whether these carried the same value and meaning upon doing so. Addressing two main issues, mainly from an archaeological perspective, the volume explores the change in religious habits and practices, and the consequent recycling and reuse of pagan monuments and materials, and investigates to what extent these physical processes were driven by religious motivations and contrasts, or were merely stimulated by economic issues."--Publisher's website |
| Contents |
List of illustrations. Paganism and Christianity in Late Antique North Africa ; The Fate of Pagan Religious Architecture: Was there a Conversion from the Temple to the Church? ; Pagan Continuity and Christian Attitudes: When did Paganism End? ; The Fate of Statues: Legacy of the Past or Economic Casualties? ; Spolia in Churches: Recycling in Late Antique Building Activity ; The World of the Profane in Late Antique North Africa. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500.
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Cities and towns. |
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North Africa. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Paganism.
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Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Paganism. |
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Paganism -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500.
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Paganism. |
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Sociology, Urban -- Africa, North -- History -- To 1500.
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Sociology, Urban. |
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Africa, North -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leone, Anna, 1967- End of the pagan city. First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199570928 (OCoLC)854177711 |
| ISBN |
9780191626005 (electronic book) |
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0191626007 (electronic book) |
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9780191752292 |
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0191752290 |
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9780199570928 (hardback) |
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0199570922 (hardback) |
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