Roman Cemeteries on the Territory of Pécs (Sopianae)
Author: Ferenc Fülep
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 122
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Roman Cemeteries on the Territory of Pécs (Sopianae)
Author: Ferenc Fülep
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBurial and Memorial in Late Antiquity
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-11-20
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 900468798X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBurial and Memorial explores funerary and commemorative archaeology, A.D. 284–650, across the late antique world. This first volume includes an overview of research, and papers exploring bioarchaeology, mortuary rituals, mausolea, and funerary landscapes. It considers the sacralisation of tombs, the movements of relics, and the political significance of cemeteries. The nature and fate of statue monuments is explored, as memorials to individuals. Authors also compare the destruction or preservation of tombs in relation to other buildings. Finally, the city itself is considered as a place of collective memory, where meanings were long maintained, via a study of spoliation.
Failure of Empire
Author: Noel Lenski
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2014-06-26
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 0520283899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFailure of Empire is the first comprehensive biography of the Roman emperor Valens and his troubled reign (A.D. 364-78). Valens will always be remembered for his spectacular defeat and death at the hands of the Goths in the Battle of Adrianople. This singular misfortune won him a front-row seat among history's great losers. By the time he was killed, his empire had been coming unglued for several years: the Goths had overrun the Balkans; Persians, Isaurians, and Saracens were threatening the east; the economy was in disarray; and pagans and Christians alike had been exiled, tortured, and executed in his religious persecutions. Valens had not, however, entirely failed in his job as emperor. He was an admirable administrator, a committed defender of the frontiers, and a ruler who showed remarkable sympathy for the needs of his subjects. In lively style and rich detail, Lenski incorporates a broad range of new material, from archaeology to Gothic and Armenian sources, in a study that illuminates the social, cultural, religious, economic, administrative, and military complexities of Valens's realm. Failure of Empire offers a nuanced reconsideration of Valens the man and shows both how he applied his strengths to meet the expectations of his world and how he ultimately failed in his efforts to match limited capacities to limitless demands.
The Transition to Late Antiquity on the lower Danube
Author: Andrew Poulter
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2019-09-30
Total Pages: 906
ISBN-13: 1785709615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcavations on the site of this remarkable fort in northern Bulgaria (1996–2005) formed part of a long-term program of excavation and intensive field survey, aimed at tracing the economic as well as physical changes which mark the transition from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages, a program that commenced with the excavation and full publication of the early Byzantine fortress/city of Nicopolis ad Istrum. The analysis of well-dated finds and their full publication provides a unique database for the late Roman period in the Balkans; they include metal-work, pottery (local and imported fine ware), glass, copper alloy finds, inscriptions and dipinti (on amphorae), as well as quantified environmental reports on animal, birds, and fish with specialist reports on the archaeobotanical material, glass analysis, and querns. The report also details the results of site-specific intensive survey, a new method developed for use in the rich farmland of the central Balkans. In addition, there is a detailed report on a most remarkable and well-preserved aqueduct, which employed the largest siphon ever discovered in the Roman Empire. This publication will provide a substantial database of material and environmental finds, an invaluable resource for the region and for the Roman Empire: material invaluable for studies, which seeks to place the late Roman urban and military identity within its regional and extra-regional economic setting.
A History of the Ostrogoths
Author: Thomas S. Burns
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1991-02-22
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780253206008
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Thorough and convincing... likely to become the standard work on the subject." --Library Journal "Highly readable." --Medieval Literature "A major work of synthesis." --Walter E. Kaegi "Burns has achieved much for the modern study of Ostrogoths." --Antiquaries Journal
The Architecture of Historic Hungary
Author: Pál Lővei
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0262231921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive survey in English of Hungarian architecture, from prehistoric settlements to contemporary experiments. Perhaps most revealing to Western readers are the illustrations and line drawings, which document one of the most neglected but fascinating architectural traditions of Europe. 305 illustrations, 12 in color.
Field Methods and Post-Excavation Techniques in Late Antique Archaeology
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-04-26
Total Pages: 702
ISBN-13: 9004309772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchaeologists working on late antique sites have not spent enough time thinking about methodology. Their focus has been on recovering and cataloguing evidence, or on the study of specific historical problems. Digging has often been more important than publishing, which has rarely extended beyond the basic summaries found in preliminary reports. The re-emergence of clearance excavation, fuelled by the demands of tourism, has further reduced the value of urban excavations in the East Mediterranean. Here, late antique levels have suffered, in the hunt for photogenic early imperial architecture. This volume attempts to address this situation by offering a critique of present practice and a series of exemplars, alongside discussion articles on field technique and post-excavation analysis. The articles ranges from urban survey to the study of finds. The book also considers if we need to develop specific field methods appropriate to the study of late antiquity. Contributors are John Bintliff, Jeremy Evans, Axel Gering, Stefan Groh, Yoshiki Hori, Nikolaos D. Karydis, Veli Köse, Luke Lavan, Zsolt Magyar, Philip Mills, John Pearce, Steve Roskams, Helga Sedlmayer, Ellen Swift, Itamar Taxel, Douglas Underwood, Lutgarde Vandeput and Joe Williams.
Christianity in Roman Pannonia
Author: Dorottya Gáspár
Publisher: BAR International Series
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis detailed study about how Christian life changed in Pannonia after Christianity was adopted as the empire's official religion, is based on a well-illustrated catalogue of Christian and Jewish sites, graves, monuments and finds. Each referenced entry includes a commentary.
Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity - Volume 3.1
Author: William Bowden
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-12-31
Total Pages: 687
ISBN-13: 9047407601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines the social and political structures of the late antique period and the ways in which they are manifested in the archaeological and textual record.
