Constructing Communities In The Late Roman Countryside
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Constructing Communities In The Late Roman Countryside
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Author : Cam Grey
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-25
Constructing Communities In The Late Roman Countryside written by Cam Grey and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-25 with History categories.
This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the 'small politics' of rural communities in the Late Roman world. It places the diverse fates of those communities within a generalized model for exploring rural social systems. Fundamentally, social interactions in rural contexts in the period revolved around the desire of individual households to insure themselves against catastrophic subsistence failure and the need of the communities in which they lived to manage the attendant social tensions, inequalities and conflicts. A focus upon the politics of reputation in those communities provides a striking contrast to the picture painted by the legislation and the writings of Rome's literate elite: when viewed from the point of view of the peasantry, issues such as the Christianization of the countryside, the emergence of new types of patronage relations, and the effects of the new system of taxation upon rural social structures take on a different aspect.
Living With Risk In The Late Roman World
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Author : CAM. GREY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2025-04-15
Living With Risk In The Late Roman World written by CAM. GREY and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-15 with History categories.
Urban Centers And Rural Contexts In Late Antiquity
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Author : Thomas S. Burns
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Urban Centers And Rural Contexts In Late Antiquity written by Thomas S. Burns and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Recent publications on urbanism and the rural environment in Late Antiquity, most of which explore a single region or narrow chronological niche, have emphasized either textual or archeological evidence. None has attempted the more ambitious task of bringing together the full range of such evidence within a multiregional perspective and around common themes. Urban Centers and Rural Contexts seeks to redress this omission. While ancient literature and the physical remains of cities attest to the power that urban values held over the lives of their inhabitants, the rural areas in which the majority of imperial citizens lived have not been well served by the historical record. Only recently have archeological excavations and integrated field surveys sufficiently enhanced our knowledge of the rural contexts to demonstrate the continuing interdependence of urban centers and rural communities in Late Antiquity. These new data call into question the conventional view that this interdependence progressively declined as a result of governmental crises, invasions, economic dislocation, and the success of Christianization. The essays in this volume require us to abandon the search for a single model of urban and rural change; to reevaluate the cities and towns of the Empire as centers of habitation, rather than archeological museums; and to reconsider the evidence of continuous and pervasive cultural change across the countryside. Deploying a wide range of material as well as literary evidence, the authors provide access not only into the world of élites, but also to the scarcely known lives of those without a voice in the literature, those men and women who worked in the shops, labored in the fields, and humbled themselves before their gods. They bring us closer to the complexity of life in late ancient communities and, in consequence, closer to both urban and rural citizens.
Recent Research On The Late Antique Countryside
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Author : William Bowden
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Recent Research On The Late Antique Countryside written by William Bowden and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with History categories.
This volume explores the late antique countryside, looking at social and political life, landscape change, villas, monasteries, pilgrimage sites and the fate of rural temples. A section is devoted to recent survey work in Turkey and a comprehensive bibliographic essay frames the work. With contributions by Alexandra Chavarría, Tamara Lewit, Peter Sarris, Frank R. Trombley, Beatrice Caseau, John Mitchell, Marcus Rautman, Douglas Baird, Hannelore Vanhaverbeke, Femke Martens, Marc Waelkens, Jeroen Poblome, Joanita Vroom, Carla Sfameni, Lynda Mulvin, Joseph Patrich, Beat Brenk, Etienne Louis, Fabio Saggioro and Archie Dunn.
The Roman Countryside
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Author : Stephen L. Dyson
language : en
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Release Date : 2003-08-21
The Roman Countryside written by Stephen L. Dyson and has been published by Bristol Classical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-08-21 with Architecture categories.
Stephen Dyson provides a new synthesis, describing current research on the Roman countryside with a topological framework. Focusing on areas where some of the most innovative rural research has been conducted, he discusses what happened during the period of transition.
The Archaeology Of Peasantry In Roman Spain
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Author : Jesús Bermejo Tirado
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-01-19
The Archaeology Of Peasantry In Roman Spain written by Jesús Bermejo Tirado and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-19 with History categories.
This volume aims to present an updated portrait of the Roman countryside in Roman Spain by the comparison of different theoretical orientations and methodological strategies including the discussion of textual and iconographic sources and the analysis of the faunal remains. The archaeology of rural areas of the Roman world has traditionally been focused on the study of villae, both as an architectural model of Roman otium and as the central core of an economic system based on the extensive agricultural exploitation of latifundia. The assimilation of most rural settlements in provincial areas of the Roman Empire with the villa model implies the acceptance of specific ideas, such as the generalization of the slave mode of production, the rupture of the productive capacity of Late Iron Age communities, or the reduction in importance of free peasant labor in the Roman economy of most rural areas. However, in recent decades, as a consequence of the generalized extension of preventive or emergency archaeology and survey projects in most areas of the ancient territories of the Roman Empire, this traditional conception of the Roman countryside articulated around monumental villae is undergoing a thorough revision. New research projects are changing our current perception of the countryside of most parts of the Roman provincial world by assessing the importance of different types of rural settlements. In the last years, we have witnessed the publication of archaeological reports on the excavation of thousands of small rural sites, farms, farmsteads, enclosures, rural agglomerations of diverse nature, etc. One of the main consequences of all this research activity is a vigorous discussion of the paradigm of the slave mode of production as the basis of Roman rural economies in many provincial areas. A similar change in the paradigm is taking place, with some delay, in the archaeology of Roman Spain. After decades of preventive/emergency interventions there is a considerable quantity of unpublished data on this kind of rural settlements. However, unlike the cases of Roman Britain or Gallia Comata, no synthesis or national projects are undertaking the task of systematizing all these data. With the intention of addressing this current situation the present volume discusses the results and methodological strategies of different projects studying peasant settlements in several regions of Roman Spain.
Late Ancient Knowing
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Author : Catherine Michael Chin
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-05-02
Late Ancient Knowing written by Catherine Michael Chin and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-02 with History categories.
In this collection of essays, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the activity of knowing in late antiquity by focusing on thirteen major concepts from the intellectual, social, political, and cultural history of the period. They ask two questions about each of these concepts: what did late ancient people know about them, and how was that knowledge expressed in people’s actions? Late Ancient Knowing integrates intellectual history, post-structuralist literary theory, and recent trends in cognitive science to examine the ways that historical thought-worlds both shaped individual lives and were in turn shaped by the actions of individuals. Each chapter treats its main concept as a problem both of knowledge and of practice or behavior. The result is a richly imagined description of how people of this time understood and navigated their world, from travel through the countryside and encounters with demons to philosophical medicine and the etiquette of imperial courts.
Popular Culture And The End Of Antiquity In Southern Gaul C 400 550
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Author : Lucy Grig
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-31
Popular Culture And The End Of Antiquity In Southern Gaul C 400 550 written by Lucy Grig and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-31 with History categories.
Sheds fresh light on the transformation of the classical world, focusing on popular culture and history from below.
Daily Life In Late Antiquity
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Author : Kristina Sessa
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-09
Daily Life In Late Antiquity written by Kristina Sessa and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-09 with History categories.
This book introduces readers to lived experience in the Late Roman Empire, from c.250-600 CE.
The Oxford Handbook Of Late Antiquity
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Author : Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-11
The Oxford Handbook Of Late Antiquity written by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11 with History categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These events are set in the context of widespread literary, artistic, cultural, and religious change during the period. The geographical scope of this Handbook is unparalleled among comparable surveys of Late Antiquity; Arabia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Balkans all receive dedicated treatments, while the scope extends to the western kingdoms, and North Africa in the West. Furthermore, from economic theory and slavery to Greek and Latin poetry, Syriac and Coptic literature, sites of religious devotion, and many others, this Handbook covers a wide range of topics that will appeal to scholars from a diverse array of disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity engages the perennially valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.