Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78925-816-5 (ISBN)
The Greco-Roman world is identified in the modern mind by its cities. This includes both specific places such as Athens and Rome, but also an instantly recognisable style of urbanism wrought in marble and lived in by teeming tunic-clad crowds. Selective and misleading this vision may be, but it speaks to the continuing importance these ancient cities have had in the centuries that followed and the extent to which they define the period in subsequent memory. Although there is much that is mysterious about them, the cities of the Roman Mediterranean are, for the most part, historically known. That the names and pasts of these cities remain known to us is the product of an extraordinary process of remembering and forgetting stretching back to antiquity that took place throughout the former Roman world. This volume tackles this subject of the survival and transformation of the ancient city through memory, drawing upon the methodological and theoretical lenses of memory studies and resilience theory to view the way the Greco-Roman city lived and vanished for the generations that separate the present from antiquity.
This book analyses the different ways in which urban communities of the post-Antique world have tried to understand and relate to the ancient city on their own terms, examining it as a process of forgetting as well as remembering. Many aspects of the ancient city were let go as time passed, but those elements that survived, that were actively remembered, have shaped the many understandings of what it was. The volume assembles specialists in multiple fields to bring their perspectives to bear on the subject through eleven case studies that range from late Antiquity to the mid-20th century, and from the Iberian Peninsula to Iran. Through the examination of archaeological remains, changing urban layouts and chronicles, travel guides and pamphlets, they track how the ancient city was made useful or consigned to oblivion.
Javier Martínez Jiménez is an archaeologist specialising in late antique and early medieval Iberia. He completed his thesis at Oxford in 2014, and has worked on issues of urbanism, water supply, identity and citizenship in the Visigothic period. Sam Ottewill-Soulsby is a historian of the late antique and early medieval world. Since finishing his PhD at Cambridge in 2017 his interests have included the medieval reception of classical ideas of urbanism, interfaith relations and charismatic megafauna.
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1. Resilient cities: Aspects of urban form and social function_x000D_
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2. The Cities of Cassiodorus: The Resilience of Urban Values_x000D_
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3. A fundamentis noviter: The Iidea of the Ancient cCity, the Ninth-Century Liber Pontificalis, and Civic Thought in Eearly Mmedieval Italy_x000D_
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4. The Resilience of the Late Antique City in Southern Gaul during the Romanesque Period_x000D_
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5. Rome, Neapolis, and mModernity in late nineteenth-century Naples_x000D_
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6. Prousa to Bursa: The Reinvention of an Ottoman Capital_x000D_
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Suna Çagaptay (Cambridge) _x000D_
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Part 2. Remembered Cities_x000D_
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7. Remembering the Rose Red City: Religion, pPilgrimage, and the Shaping of Byzantine Petra_x000D_
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8. ÔÇÿHunting diligently through the volumes of the AncientsÔÇÖ: Frechulf of Lisieux on the First City and the End of Innocence_x000D_
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9. Remembering the ancient Iranian city from Late Antiquity to Islam_x000D_
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10. Traces of the Ancients: The pre-Islamic monuments of the Maghrib in the medieval Arabic geographical tradition_x000D_
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11. Rituals of memory at the Olympieion precinct of Athens_x000D_
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Conclusion_x000D_
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Javier Mart├¡nez Jim├®nez and Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.03.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | B/w and colour |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 240 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78925-816-2 / 1789258162 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78925-816-5 / 9781789258165 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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