eBooks - History - World - John Rich - The City in Late Antiquity
The City in Late Antiquity eBooks
editor John Rich
|
Platforms
Windows Vista / XP / 2000, Mac OS X, Sony Reader Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $43.33
|
|
Platforms
Windows Vista / XP / 2000, Mac OS X, Sony Reader Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $58.73
|
|
Platforms
Windows PC, Windows Mobile 5.0-6.0, Pocket PC 2003 Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $43.33
|
|
Platforms
Windows PC, Palm, Windows Mobile, Pocket PC, Symbian OS, Blackberry, iLiad, and more. Features
|
Availability:
Download Now Price: $29.32
|
The City in Late Antiquity Summary
| Examines the changes undergone by Roman cities in the Late Roman empire and seeks to explain why urban life disappeared in some regions, while elsewhere cities survived through to the Middle Ages and beyond. |
|
|
|
The Roman Empire in its early centuries was a world of cities, dominated by landowning elites and conforming to a common pattern in their institutions, buildings and culture. In "The City in Late Antiquity" archaeologists and historians bring together their two disciplines to discuss what became of these cities, after the crisis of the third century and the later collapse of the Empire. While the classical city has often been portrayed as in decline everywhere by the fourth century, this book shows this picture to be too simplistice. In some regions, such as Africa, old customs were still vigorous, while elsewhere, for example in Britain, urban life disappeared and the cities survived only as fortresses, if at all. This book pays particular attention to the impact of the Christianization of the Empire on the cities. |
|
|
eBooks - Titles - Authors - History - World - John Rich - The City in Late Antiquity