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024 7 _a10.1163/9789004422612
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035 _a(OCoLC)1127929341
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100 1 _aMark, Humphries,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aCities and the Meanings of Late Antiquity /
_cMark Humphries.
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBRILL,
_c2020.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aBrill Research Perspectives
505 0 _aFront Matter -- Copyright page -- Cities and the Meanings of Late Antiquity.
520 _aThe last half century has seen an explosion in the study of late antiquity, which has characterised the period between the third and seventh centuries not as one of catastrophic collapse and ‘decline and fall’, but rather as one of dynamic and positive transformation. Yet research on cities in this period has provoked challenges to this positive picture of late antiquity. This study surveys the nature of this debate, examining problems associated with the sources historians use to examine late antique urbanism, and the discourses and methodological approaches they have constructed from them. It aims to set out the difficulties and opportunities presented by the study of cities in late antiquity in terms of transformations of politics, the economy, and religion, and to show that this period witnessed very real upheaval and dislocation alongside continuity and innovation in cities around the Mediterranean.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCities and towns, Ancient.
650 0 _aCities and towns, Medieval.
650 0 _aCity and town life.
650 0 _aUrban archaeology.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tCities and the Meanings of Late Antiquity,
_dLeiden Boston : BRILL, 2020
_w9789004422605
830 0 _aBrill Research Perspectives.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004422612
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