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The Afterlife of the Roman City - Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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The Afterlife of the Roman City - Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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This book offers a new and surprising perspective on the evolution
of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early
Middle Ages (third to ninth centuries AD). It suggests that the
tenacious persistence of leading cities across most of the Roman
world is due, far more than previously thought, to the persistent
inclination of kings, emperors, caliphs, bishops, and their leading
subordinates to manifest the glory of their offices on an urban
stage, before crowds of city dwellers. Long after the dissolution
of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, these communal leaders
continued to maintain and embellish monumental architectural
corridors established in late antiquity, the narrow but grandiose
urban itineraries, essentially processional ways, in which their
parades and solemn public appearances consistently unfolded.
Hendrik W. Dey's approach selectively integrates urban topography
with the actors who unceasingly strove to animate it for many
centuries.
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