Recent research on the late antique countryside
By: edited by William Bowden, Luke Lavan, and Carlos Machado.
Contributors: Bowden, William.; Lavan, Luke.; Machado, Carlos.
Series: Late antique archaeology ;; 2
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
Subjects: Landscape archaeology -- Rome.; Country life -- Rome -- History.; Rome -- Economic conditions.; Rome -- Rural conditions.
Description: "This book surveys a variety of themes relating to the late antique countryside. It covers social and economic life, the archaeology of pilgrimage and the fate of rural temples, villas, monasteries and landscape change. There is a special section on rural survey in Turkey, a region of the Roman empire for which our knowledge of the countryside is poor. A bibliographic essay, on the rural archaeology of the entire empire, provides an excellent introduction to the volume and to the subject as a whole. Essays range from Northern Gaul to Egypt and draw on many sources: from papyrology and epigraphy to field survey and paleobotany.

A complex picture of differing regional trajectories emerges, whilst cultural change is everywhere apparent, in phenomena such as Christianisation, settlement nucleation and fortification."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.