(Re)using ruins : public building in the cities of the late antique West, A.D. 300-600 / by Douglas Underwood

• Superior document: Late Antique archaeology (Supplementary series) volume 3
• VerfasserIn: Underwood, Douglas
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Boston : Brill, [2019]
• Année de publication: 2019
• Langue: English
• Collection: Late Antique archaeology (Supplementary series) volume 3
• Classification: 15.17 - Klassische Archäologie
• Description matérielle: XV, 268 Seiten; Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
• Notes: Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of St. Andrews, 2015, under the title: Using and reusing the monumental past in the late antique Mediterranean West, 300-600; Includes bibliographical references and index
• Other title: Using ruins; Reusing ruins
• Résumé: Late antiquity and the city -- Baths, aqueducts and water -- Spectacle buildings -- Reuse and public buildings -- Analysis and discussion; In '(Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood' presents a new account of the use and reuse of Roman urban public monuments in a crucial period of transition, A.D. 300-600. Commonly seen as a period of uniform decline for public building, especially in the western half of the Mediterranean, '(Re)using Ruins' shows a vibrant, yet variable, history for these structures.0Douglas Underwood establishes a broad catalogue of archaeological evidence (supplemented with epigraphic and literary testimony) for the construction, maintenance, abandonment and reuses of baths, aqueducts, theatres, amphitheatres and circuses in Italy, southern Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, demonstrating that the driving force behind the changes to public buildings was largely a combined shift in urban ideologies and euergetistic practices in Late Antique cities
• ISBN: 9789004319691
• ac_no: AC15571548
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Douglas Underwood

Late antiquity and the city -- Baths, aqueducts and water -- Spectacle buildings -- Reuse and public buildings -- Analysis and discussion