The Idea and Ideal of the Town Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Title | The Idea and Ideal of the Town Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Gian Pietro Brogiolo |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004109018 |
This volume collects papers by distinguished European scholars, on the changing perception of the city in the period of transition from the Roman World to the Early Middle Ages. Central themes are the persistence of classical ideals of urban life, within a rapidly-changing world, and the emergence of a new ideal of the city that was specifically Christian.
Towns and their Territories Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Title | Towns and their Territories Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Brogiolo |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 438 |
Release | 2021-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 900447479X |
The papers in this volume are contributed by leading historians, art historians and archaeologists and focus on 5 key themes: the evolution of settlement patterns in the Byzantine empire; the impact of barbarian elites in Spain, Gaul, Italy and Pannonia; the role of the Church in the definition of new links between town and territories; the situation in culturally homogenous territories such as Constantinople and the minor Langbard polities; the situation in economically defined territories. Contributions include papers by Gian Pietro Brogiolo, Pablo C. Díaz, Michel Fixot, Gisela Ripoll and Javier Arce, Sauro Gelichi, Wolfram Brandes and John Haldon, Nancy Gauthier, Gisella Cantino Wataghin, Ross Balzaretti, Martina Caroli, Neil Christie, Bryan Ward-Perkins and John Mitchell.
War and Warfare in Late Antiquity (2 vols.)
Title | War and Warfare in Late Antiquity (2 vols.) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 1119 |
Release | 2013-08-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004252584 |
This collection of papers, arising from the Late Antique Archaeology conference series, explores war and warfare in Late Antiquity. Papers examine strategy and intelligence, weaponry, literary sources and topography, the West Roman Empire, the East Roman Empire, the Balkans, civil war and Italy.
Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology
Title | Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | Luke A. Lavan |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 484 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9789004125674 |
An exploration of theoretical frameworks, methodology and field practice suited to the late antique Mediterranean. Broad themes such as long-term change, topography, the economy and social life are covered, but in terms of the issues and problems being tackled by scholars of late antiquity.
Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages
Title | Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Mayke de Jong |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 630 |
Release | 2001-06-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047404041 |
The 19 papers presented in this volume by North American and European historians and archaeologists discuss how early medieval political and religious elites constructed ‘places of power’, and how such places, in turn, created powerful people. They also examine how the ‘high-level’ power exercised by elites was transformed in the post-Roman kingdoms of Europe, as Roman cities gave way as central stages for rituals of power to a multitude of places and spaces where political and religious power were represented. Although the Frankish kingdoms receive a large share of attention, contributions also focus on the changing topography of power in the old centres of the Roman world, Rome and Constantinople, to what ‘centres of power’ may have meant in the steppes of Inner Asia, Scandinavia or the lower Vistula, where political power was even more mobile and decentralised than in the post-Roman kingdoms, as well as to monasteries and their integration into early medieval topographies of power.
Towns and Their Territories Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middles Ages
Title | Towns and Their Territories Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middles Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Gian Pietro Brogiolo |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789004118690 |
The papers in this volume are contributed by leading historians, art historians and archaeologists and focus on 5 key themes: the evolution of settlement patterns in the Byzantine empire; the impact of barbarian elites in Spain, Gaul, Italy and Pannonia; the role of the Church in the definition of new links between town and territories; the situation in culturally homogenous territories such as Constantinople and the minor Langbard polities; the situation in economically defined territories. Contributions include papers by Gian Pietro Brogiolo, Pablo C. Diaz, Michel Fixot, Gisela Ripoll and Javier Arce, Sauro Gelichi, Wolfram Brandes and John Haldon, Nancy Gauthier, Gisella Cantino Wataghin, Ross Balzaretti, Martina Caroli, Neil Christie, Bryan Ward-Perkins and John Mitchell.
Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy
Title | Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Goodson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 323 |
Release | 2021-03-25 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1108489117 |
Demonstrates how food-growing gardens in early medieval cities transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.