Housing in Late Antiquity

by Lavan, Luke; Ozgenel, Lale; Sarantis, Alexander

• ISBN13: 9789004162280
• ISBN10: 9004162283
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines the housing in the late antique period, through thematic and regional syntheses, complemented by cases studies and two bibliographic essays.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Late Antique Housing and the Uses of Residential Buildings: an Overview	p. 1
Bibliographic Essays
Housing in Late Antiquity: Thematic Perspectives	p. 25
Housing in Late Antiquity: Regional Perspectives	p. 67
Episcopia
Domus in Qua Manebat Episcopus: Episcopal Residences in Northern Italy during Late Antiquity (4th to 6th c. A.D.)	p. 97
Architecture and Church Power in Late Antiquity: Canosa and San Giusto (Apulia)	p. 131
Episkopeia in Asia Minor	p. 169
Other Thematic Studies
Private Space in Late Antique Cities: Laws and Building Procedures	p. 197
Public Use and Privacy in Late Antique Houses in Asia Minor: the Architecture of Spatial Control	p. 239
Shedding Light on Late Roman Housing	p. 283
Regional Studies
The Urban Domus in Late Antique Hispania: Examples from Emerita, Barcino and Complutum	p. 305
Late Antique Domus of Africa Proconsularis: Structural and Decorative Aspects	p. 337
Domus and Villa: Late Antique Housing in Carthage and its Territory	p. 367
Cappadocia's Rock-Cut Courtyard Complexes: a Case Study for Domestic Architecture in Byzantium	p. 393
Recently Investigated Urban Houses
A Late Roman House at Eauze (Cieutat), France	p. 417
The Palace of Theoderic at Ravenna: a New Analysis of the Complex	p. 425
The Triconch Palace at Butrint: the Life and Death of a Late Roman Domus	p. 455
The House of the Lycian Acropolis at Xanthos	p. 475
Two Late Antique Residential Complexes at Sagalassos	p. 495
The Excavation of an Umayyad Period House at Pella in Jordan	p. 515
Index	p. 523
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