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Cities as Palimpsests? - Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism (Hardcover)
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Cities as Palimpsests? - Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism (Hardcover)
Series: Impact of the Ancient City, 1
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The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to
conceptualise cities with deep, living pasts. This volume thinks
through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether
this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where
local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that
satisfy our own assumptions about historical periodisation and
cultural practice, but which bear little relation to the experience
of ancient, medieval or early modern persons. Spanning the period
from Constantine's foundation of a New Rome in the fourth century
to the contemporary aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, this book
integrates perspectives from scholars typically separated by the
disciplinary boundaries of late antique, Islamic, medieval,
Byzantine, Ottoman and modern Middle Eastern studies, but whose
work is united by their study of a region characterised by
resilience rather than rupture. The volume includes an introduction
and eighteen contributions from historians, archaeologists and art
historians who explore the historical and cultural complexity of
eastern Mediterranean cities. The authors highlight the effects of
the multiple antiquities imagined and experienced by persons and
groups who for generations made these cities home, and also by
travellers and other observers who passed through them. The
independent case studies are bound together by a shared concern to
understand the many ways in which the cities' pasts live on in
their presents.
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