Военная история / The Afterlife of the Roman City: Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Название: The Afterlife of the Roman City: Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Автор: Hendrik W. Dey
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2014
Страниц: 318
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 10 MB

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.