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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"This book offers a new and surprising perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (third to ninth centuries AD). It suggests that the tenacious persistence of leading cities across most of the Roman world is due, far more than previously thought, to the persistent inclination of kings, emperors, caliphs, bishops, and their leading subordinates to manifest the glory of their offices on an urban stage, before crowds of city dwellers. Long after the dissolution of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, these communal leaders continued to maintain and embellish monumental architectural corridors established in late antiquity, the narrow but grandiose urban itineraries, essentially processional ways, in which their parades and solemn public appearances consistently unfolded. Hendrik W. Dey's approach selectively integrates urban topography with the actors who unceasingly strove to animate it for many centuries"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of plates; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Dedication; Chapter One Introduction: Urban Living and the 'Fall' of the Roman Empire; Chapter Two New Urban Forms for a New Empire: The Third Century and the Genesis of the Late Antique City; 2.1 Philippopolis; 2.2 Cities and the Reorganization of the Late Roman State; 2.3 Urban Architecture under Diocletian and the Tetrarchy: Palaces and Capitals; 2.4 Praesens Deus: Imperial Ceremonial and Urban Architecture. |
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Chapter Three Ceremonial Armatures: Porticated Streets and Their Architectural Appendages3.1 Prolegomena to Porticated Streets; 3.2 Imperial Capitals in Italy: Rome and Milan; 3.3 Constantinople; 3.4 Porticated Streets and the Literary Image of Late Antique Cityscapes; 3.5 Commerce, Commemoration and Ceremony in the Colonnades of the Eastern Mediterranean; 3.6 The Long Shadow of Constantinople, I: New Cities and Old Traditions in the Sixth-Century East; 3.7 The Long Shadow of Constantinople, II: Ravenna; 3.8 The Intersection of 'Real' and 'Ideal': Cities Depicted; 3.9 Conclusions. |
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Chapter Four 'Dark Ages' and the Afterlife of the Classical City4.1 Cities, the Seventh Century and the Beginning of the Middle Ages; 4.2 The Visigothic Kingdom; 4.3 Merovingian Gaul; 4.4 Lombard Italy; 4.5 Byzantium; 4.6 The Umayyad Levant; Chapter Five Postscript: Architecture, Ceremony and Monastic Cities in Carolingian Francia; Conclusions; Bibliography; Editions; Works Cited; Index; Plates. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Public architecture -- Rome.
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Public architecture -- Classical influences.
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Public architecture -- Classical influences. |
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Symbolism in architecture -- Rome.
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Symbolism in architecture -- History -- To 1500.
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Symbolism in architecture. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Cities and towns -- Rome.
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Cities and towns, Medieval.
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Cities and towns, Medieval. |
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Architecture and state -- Rome.
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Architecture and state -- History -- To 1500.
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Architecture and state. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dey, Hendrik W., 1976- Afterlife of the Roman city 9781107069183 (DLC) 2014025981 (OCoLC)883748759 |
| ISBN |
9781316215043 (electronic book) |
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1316215040 (electronic book) |
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9781107706538 (electronic book) |
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110770653X (electronic book) |
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9781316215456 |
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1316215458 |
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9781316215241 |
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1316215245 |
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1107069181 |
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9781107069183 |
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9781107069183 |
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1107069181 |
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9781107686335 |
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1107686334 |
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1316213633 |
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9781316213636 |
| Standard No. |
9781107069183 |
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10.1017/CBO9781107706538 |
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