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1 online resource (xxvii, 379 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Difficillima tempora : urban life, inscriptions, and mentality in late antique Rome / G. Alföldy -- Autun and the civitas aeduorum : maintaining and transforming a regional identity in late antiquity / B.K. Young -- Alexandria and the Mareotis region / C. Haas -- The case of late antique Berytus : urban wealth and rural sustenance : a different economic dynamic / L.J. Hall -- Urban space in Caesarea Maritima, Israel / J. Patrich -- Byzantine petra : a reassessment / Z.T. Fiema -- Women and horses and power and war / J.F. Drinkwater -- The interdependence of town and country in late antique Spain / M. Kulikowski -- Towns, vici and villae : late Roman military society on the frontiers of the province Valeria / Z. Visy -- Archaeological perspectives on rural settlement in late antiquity in the Rhine and Danube area / H. Bender -- Peasants as 'makeshift soldiers for the occasion' : sixth-century settlement patterns in the Balkans / F. Curta -- Town and countryside in Roman Arabia during late antiquity / D.F. Graf -- Rural society and economy in late Roman Cyprus / M. Rautman -- Pastoral care : town and country in late-antique preaching / E.G. Clark -- The continuity of paganism between the cities and countryside of late Roman Africa / D. Riggs -- From pagan to Christian in cities of Roman Anatolia during the fourth and fifth centuries / K. Harl -- ' ... Nec sedere in villam' : villa churches, rural piety and the Priscillianist controversy / K. Bowers -- Christianizing the Syrian countryside : an archaeological and architectural approach / F.L. Kidner |
| Summary |
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 |
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Contributions to the Third Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, Emory University, March 1999 |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Cities and towns -- Rome -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Cities and towns
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Steden.
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Platteland.
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Late oudheid.
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Rome (Empire)
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Burns, Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel), 1945- editor.
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Eadie, John William, editor.
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Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (3rd : 1999 : Emory University)
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9780870138980 |
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0870138987 |
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9781628962222 |
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1628962224 |
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