Refiguring the Post-Classical City
Refiguring the Post-Classical City
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This is a study of the "Christianization" of the city between the third and sixth centuries. The text traces changes in the meaning of urban space and in the ritual practices of Jewish, Christian and Graeco-Roman cults through an investigation of the art and archaeology of four important late antique sites: Dura Europos (mid third century), Jerash and Jerusalem (fourth and fifth centuries) and Ravenna (sixth century). Interwoven in the discussion of the monuments is an assessment of the political circumstances that controlled the writing of their history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Application of contemporary theory to the history of pre-modern cultural production
- Critical assessment of the politics of the historiography of ancient Jewish and Christian art
- Revised understanding of familiar monuments by considering them as an active part of the ceremonies staged within them
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"The interdisciplinary range and skill evidenced by Wharton command our respect and deserve our thanks." Gregory T. Armstrong, Church History
Product details
January 1996Hardback
9780521481854
256 pages
262 × 209 × 21 mm
1.026kg
58 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print January 2009
Table of Contents
- 1. The scholarly frame: Orientalism and the construction of late ancient art history
- 2. Dura Europos
- 3. Jerash and Jerusalem
- 4. Ravenna
- 5. The popular frame: the use and reuse of monuments.
