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The city in late antiquity

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The city was the nexus of the Roman Empire in its early centuries. The City in Late Antiquity charts the change undergone by cities as the Empire was weakened by the third-century crisis, and later disintegrated under external pressures. The old picture of the classical city as everywhere in decline by the fourth century is shown to be far too simple, and John Rich seeks to explain why urban life disappeared in some regions, while elsewhere cities survived through to the Middle Ages and beyond.

Title The city in late antiquity / edited by John Rich.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 1992
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Book Cover
Title
Contents
Notes on contributors
Preface
Abbreviations
The end of the ancient city WOLFGANG LIEBESCHUETZ
The survival and fall of the classical city in Late Roman Africa CLAUDE LEPELLEY
Christianity and the city in Late Roman Gaul JILL HARRIES
The use and abuse of urbanism in the Danubian provinces during the Later Roman Empire ANDREW POULTER
The end of the city in Roman Britain RICHARD REECE
'The cities are not populated as once they were' PHILIP DIXON
Public buildings and urban change in northern Italy in the early mediaeval period CRISTINA LA ROCCA
Antioch: from Byzantium to Islam and back again HUGH KENNEDYIndex
Series Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society
3
Extent 1 online resource (215 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010702450705171
MARC RECORDS

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