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City Walls in Late Antiquity
The construction of urban defences was one of the hallmarks of the late Roman and late-antique periods (300–600 AD) throughout the western and eastern empire. City walls were the most significant construction projects of their time and they redefined the urban landscape. Their appearance and monumental scale, as well as the cost of labour and material, are easily comparable to projects from the High Empire; however, urban circuits provided late-antique towns with a new means of self-representation. While their final appearance and construction techniques varied greatly, the cost involved and the dramatic impact that such projects had on the urban topography of late-antique cities mark city...
Being Pagan, Being Christian in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages
What does it mean to identify oneself as pagan or Christian in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages? How are religious identities constructed, negotiated, and represented in oral and written discourse? How is identity performed in rituals, how is it visible in material remains? Antiquity and the Middle Ages are usually regarded as two separate fields of scholarship. However, the period between the fourth and tenth centuries remains a time of transformations in which the process of religious change and identity building reached beyond the chronological boundary and the Roman, the Christian and ‘the barbarian’ traditions were merged in multiple ways. Being Pagan, Being Christian in Lat...
Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E.
Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E. combines archaeological and literary sources to reconstruct the history of late antique Iberian aristocracies, facilitating the study of a social class that has proved elusive when approached through the lens of a single type of evidence.
The Christian Economy of the Early Medieval West
"Examines the chronology of the Church’s acquisition of wealth, and particularly of landed property, as well as the distribution of its income, in the period between the conversion of Constantine and the eighth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West: Materials, Agents, and Models
This volume is the fruit of a highly productive international research gathering academic and professional (field- and museum) colleagues to discuss new results and approaches, recent finds and alternative theoretical assessments of the period of transition and transformation of classical towns in Late Antiquity. Experts from an array of modern countries attended and presented to help compare and contrast critically archaeologies of diverse regions and to debate the qualities of the archaeology and the current modes of study. While a number of papers inevitably focused on evidence available for both Spain and Portugal, we were delighted to have a spread of contributions that extended the picture to other territories in the Late Roman West and Mediterranean. The emphasis was very much on the images presented by archaeology (rescue and research works, recent and past), but textual data were also brought into play by various contributors.
Urban Interactions
This volume is dedicated to eliciting the interactions between localities across late antique and early medieval Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Significant research has been done in recent years to explore how late "Roman" and post-"Roman" cities, towns and other localities communicated vis-à-vis larger structural phenomena, such as provinces, empires, kingdoms, institutions and so on. This research has contributed considerably to our understanding of the place of the city in its context, but tends to portray the city as a necessarily subordinate conduit within larger structures, rather than an entity in itself, or as a hermeneutical object of enquiry. Consequently, not enough research...
The Running Centaur
This book surveys the practice of horse racing from antiquity to the modern period, and in this way offers a selective global history. Unlike previous histories of horse racing, which generally make claims about the exclusiveness of modern sport and therefore diminish the importance of premodern physical contests, the contributors to this book approach racing as a deep history of diachronically comparable practices, discourses, and perceptions centered around the competitive staging of equine speed. In order to compare horse racing cultures from completely different epochs and regions, the authors respond to a series of core issues which serve as structural comparative parameters. These key ...
Cityscaping
The term ‘cityscaping’ is here introduced to characterise the creative process through which the image of the city is created and represented in various media– text, film and artefacts. It thus turns attention away from built urban spaces and onto mental images of cities. One focus is on the question of which literary, visual and acoustic means prompt their recipients’ spatial imagination; another is to inquire into the semantics and functions that are ascribed to the image of a city as constructed in various media. The examples of ancient texts and works of art, and modern literature and films, are used to elucidate the artistic potential of images of the city and the techniques by which they are semanticised. With its interdisciplinary approach, the volume for the first time makes clear how strongly mental images of urban space, both ancient and modern, have been shaped by the techniques of their representation in media.
Le détroit de Gibraltar (Antiquité - Moyen Âge). I
Dépassant l'approche limitée à une simple étude de l'imaginaire mythique et merveilleux du détroit de Gibraltar, lieu des confins du « monde habité », ce livre explore de nouvelles sources et croise les regards qui se sont posés sur cet espace : regards des mythes, revisités par les textes médiévaux arabes et latins ; regards de savants, voyageurs et marins ; regards aussi des pouvoirs qui ont tour à tour contrôlé, ou tenté de le faire, ce seuil essentiel entre Méditerranée et Atlantique, entre Europe et Afrique, entre monde chrétien et monde musulman. Il est proposé ici une étude diachronique de l'image que renvoie le détroit de Gibraltar depuis la présence romaine jusqu'à la fin de la Reconquista.
Une semaine dans ses bras - Sous le charme d'un Irlandais
Une semaine dans ses bras, Cynthia St. Aubin Série « Les héritiers Kane » – Tome 2/3 Secrets, mensonges et scandales à Kane Foods International... Charlotte est sous le choc : tandis qu’elle enquête sur un club de boxe clandestin pour son roman, elle y découvre Mason Kane, le fils de son patron et l’homme qu’elle désire depuis deux ans ! Mason connaît désormais son petit secret et lui fait alors une proposition inattendue : il l’invite une semaine sur la Côte d’Azur afin qu’elle explore son monde... et les plaisirs sensuels. Charlotte accepte, intriguée et excitée, tout en sachant que cette liaison ne sera qu’éphémère... Sous le charme d’un Irlandais, Rachel Lee Diane ne sait plus où donner de la tête : elle a changé de travail, déménagé à Conrad City et élève depuis peu Daphne, la fille de sa cousine, sans rien y connaître en bébés ! Mais son nouveau collègue Blaine lui vient en aide, cochant toutes les cases de l’homme parfait. Bientôt l’Irlandais ne quitte plus ses pensées, cependant Diane reste sur la défensive et se demande si elle peut à nouveau faire confiance à un homme...
