{"product_id":"re-using-ruins-public-building-in-the-cities-of-the-late-antique-west-a-d-300-600-9789004319691","title":"(Re)using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn (Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood presents a new account of the use and reuse of Roman urban public monuments in a crucial period of transition, A.D. 300-600. Commonly seen as a period of uniform decline for public building, especially in the western half of the Mediterranean, (Re)using Ruins shows a vibrant, yet variable, history for these structures. Douglas Underwood establishes a broad catalogue of archaeological evidence (supplemented with epigraphic and literary testimony) for the construction, maintenance, abandonment and reuses of baths, aqueducts, theatres, amphitheatres and circuses in Italy, southern Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, demonstrating that the driving force behind the changes to public buildings was largely a combined shift in urban ideologies and euergetistic practices in Late Antique cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is innovative and underlines transformations in the late antique Mediterranean area. Its approach to reuse is rich, full of nuance, and based on a subtle analysis of all archaeological data. [...] There is no doubt this book will become a reference for the evolutionary processes of public buildings during Late Antiquity\". Blaise Pichon, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review , 13.07.2020.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword  List of Illustrations  Abbreviations    Introduction  Methods and Structure: Coverage   Methods and Structure: Approach and Evidence   Methods and Structure: Definitions    1 Late Antiquity and the City  Historical Background   Urban Evolutions in Late Antiquity   Conclusions    2 Baths, Aqueducts and Water  Introduction  Early Imperial Baths and Aqueducts   Baths in Late Antiquity   Aqueducts in Late Antiquity   Trends and Causes   Conclusions    3 Spectacle Buildings   Introduction   Early Imperial Spectacle Buildings   Spectacle Buildings in Late Antiquity   Trends and Causes   Conclusions    4 Reuse and Public Buildings   Past Study   Reuse in the Early Empire   Conceptualising and Categorising Reuse   The Reuse of Public Architecture in the Late Antique West,   ca.300–600   Overall Trends 165   Reuse and the Late Antique City   Conclusions    5 Analysis and Discussion   Explanations for the Demise and Reuse of this Group of Public   buildings   Public Buildings and the Late Antique City    Conclusion    Appendix I: Timeline of Dates and Events    Appendix II: Benefaction in the Western Empire    Appendix III: Tables    Bibliography   Ancient Textual Editions   Modern Sources    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210686521687,"sku":"9789004319691","price":150.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/re-using-ruins-public-building-in-the-cities-of-the-late-antique-west-a-d-300-600-9789004319691","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}