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Aesthetic Maintenance of Civic Space: The 'Classical' City from the 4th to the 7th C. AD

Aesthetic Maintenance of Civic Space: The 'Classical' City from the 4th to the 7th C. AD

Jacobs, I.

Hardcover

Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, Book 193

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryAncient History GeneralArchitecture History

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ISBN10: 9042923024
ISBN13: 9789042923027
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Mar 14 2013
Pages: 1028
Weight: 4.45
Height: 2.00 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
In the Roman period, construction and maintenance of civic monuments and infrastructure were regarded as the normal duty of well-off citizens. For the subsequent centuries, encompassing the 4th to the 7th century AD, changing social and political conditions within the Roman Empire assumingly resulted in a severe reduction of expenditure and concurrent loss of sentimental and aesthetic attitudes towards public space. This book challenges this assumption. It reconstructs how cities of the Eastern Mediterranean in late antique and Early Byzantine times represented themselves towards outsiders by assessing the care given to urban fortifications, streets and squares, decorative and religious monuments and, finally, statuary. Thereafter, the architectural changes that distinguished these centuries from previous times are discussed. The book then evaluates the identity and motives of the diverse initiators of interventions, as well as the skills and work organisation of the actual constructors. Finally, the priorities of the users of public space, as well as their responses to it, are explored.

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