Title: |
Recent research on the Late Antique countryside |
Series: |
Late Antique Archaeology
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Volume: |
2
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Number of Pages: |
624 |
Publication Type: |
Monograph Chapter (in Series)
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Abstract: |
Surveys a variety of themes relating to the Late Antique countryside. It covers social and economic life, the archaeology of pilgrimage and the fate of rural temples, villas, monasteries and landscape change. A bibliographic essay, on the rural archaeology of the entire empire, provides an introduction to the volume and to the subject as a whole. Essays cover regions throughout the late Roman Empire and draw on many sources: from papyrology and epigraphy to field survey and paleobotany. A complex picture of differing regional trajectories emerges, whilst cultural change is everywhere apparent, in phenomena such as Christianisation, settlement nucleation and fortification. Includes |
Editor: |
L Lavan
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Issue Editor: |
William Bowden
L Lavan
Carlos A Machado
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Publisher: |
Brill
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Year of Publication: |
2004
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ISBN: |
900413607X |
Subjects / Periods: |
Roman
(BIAB)
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Cultural Change/Continuity
(BIAB)
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Note: |
Is First Occurrence:
1
Is Portmanteau:
1
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Source: |
BIAB
(The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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Created Date: |
23 Sep 2004 |