Lived Spaces in Late Antiquity

Carlos Machado is a senior lecturer in ancient history at the University of St Andrews (UK). He has published extensively on late antique history and material culture, including Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome (2019) and co-edited Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome (2023). Rowan Munnery is a doctoral candidate at the University of St Andrews (UK). He focuses on utilising quantitative and network approaches in maritime archaeology to examine the maritime cultural landscape of the late antique western Mediterranean. His research interests also include the phenomenology of space aboard ships and behavioural economics in the ancient world. Rebecca Sweetman is the director of the British School at Athens and a professor of ancient history and archaeology at the University of St Andrews (UK). She has published widely on the archaeology of Greece in the Roman and late antique periods, including The Mosaics of Roman Crete: Art, Archaeology and Social Change (2013). She is particularly interested in religious spaces, mobility and network analysis.

1. Introduction: Lived spaces in Late Antiquity, Carlos Machado and Rebecca Sweetman; Part 1 – Visualising late antique spaces; 2. Lost in Space? Finding the people in late antique archaeology, Will Bowden; 3. Suburban Saints: Space, place and environment in Theodoret’s Religious History, Jason König; 4. Living with neighbours in late antique Rome, Michelle L. Berenfeld; 5. Shipshape and Roman Fashion: Space at sea in Late Antiquity, Rowan Munnery; Part 2 – Place-making and emplacement: the impact of religion; 6. Space(s) in transition: The impact of early Christianity on the late antique Horn of Africa, Gabriele Castiglia; 7. Making Space in the Visigothic Kingdom: Church founders in sixth- and seventh-century Iberian epigraphy, Carolyn T. La Rocco; 8. Holy Objects on the Move: Relics in Constantinople between city centre and urban periphery, Nadine Viermann; 9. Space and Place: Late antique churches and place remaking, Rebecca Sweetman; Part 3 – Space and meaning; 10. Entanglement of Public Space and Honorific Statue Habit in Late Antique Asia Minor, Esen Ogus; 11. Civitatem condidit. City building and community formation in the new Visigothic urban foundations, Javier Martínez Jiménez; 12. From Theoria to Pilgrimage: Ships, shores and sacred travel around the Mediterranean sea in Late Antiquity, Amelia R. Brown; Part 4 – Changing spaces; 13. Clean Death or Messy Resilience? Forum Traiani and Forum Romanum as activity spaces during the sixth century, Christina Videbech; 14. Lived Spaces in Late Antique and Early Islamic Jerash – old questions in the light of new evidence, Rubina Raja; 15. "Places of continuity”: before, around and after the end of the Roman villas in Central Italy, Enrico Zanini; 16. Lived space and social change in late antique Rome: the Campus Martius, Carlos Machado.