The idea and ideal of the town between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The transformation of the Roman world ; Vol. 4.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Minimally rubbed and slightly bleached jacket, overall very good and clean. / Minimal beriebener und leicht verblichener Umschlag, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - CONTENTS: List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction, G.P. Brogiolo & Bijan Ward-Perkins -- The Idea of the Town in the Byzantine Empire, John Haldon -- Byzantine Cities in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries�Different Sources, Different Histories?, W. Brandes -- �Anjar and Early Islamic Urbanism, R. Hillenbrand -- Ideas of the Town in Italy during the Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, G.P. Brogiolo -- Visual Images of the Town in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, Carlo Bertelli -- The Ideology of Urban Burials, G. Cantino Wataghin -- L�Id�chr�enne de la ville : quelques suggestions pour l�Antiquit�ardive et le Haut Moyen Age, Alba Maria Orselli -- La Topographie chr�enne entre id�ogie et pragmatisme, N. Gauthier -- Paganism and Christianity in Athens and Vicinity during the Fourth to Sixth Centuries A.D, P. Castr�-- Re-using the Architectural Legacy of the Past, entre id�ogie et pragmatisme, Bryan Ward-Perkins -- Conclusions, G.P. Brogiolo. - This volume examines changing perceptions and ideals of town life, from the classical cwitas/polis (the lynch-pin of ancient civilisation) to the medieval city (still playing many central roles, but with less of the ideological charge characteristic of Antiquity). One central theme is the persistent �shadow� of the ancient city�in crumbling ancient buildings, and the survival of Roman styles of urban lay-out; and in the way that cities were depicted both visually (in iconography that changed only very slowly, if at all), and verbally (in the persistence of often outmoded classical terms and descriptions). Yet the ideal of the city was also changing and developing, especially around the idea of a new, specifically Christian city, protected by its saints and by its churches. - Gian Pietro Brogiolo teaches Medieval Archaeology at the University of Padua. His interests are in the towns and countryside of early medieval Italy, and he has excavated extensively in Lombardy, particularly at Brescia and Monte Barro. He has published numerous articles on the cities of Byzantine and Lombard Italy, and is the author of Brescia altomedievale. Urbanistica ed edilizia dal IV al IX secolo (1993). Bryan Ward-Perkins is a Lecturer in Medieval History at Oxford University and a Fellow of Trinity College. He has published extensively on the towns of early medieval Italy and is the author of From Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Urban Public Building in Northern and Central Italy (1984); he is currently an editor of the Cambridge Ancient History Volume XIV. ISBN 9004109013