Debating urbanism within and beyond the walls A.D. 300-700
Subtitle: proceedings of a conference held at the University of Leicester, 15th November 2008
By: edited by Denis Sami and Gavin Speed
Series: Leicester archaeology monographs -- 17; Leicester archaeology monographs -- no. 17.
Publisher: University of Leicester, School of Archaeology & Ancient History
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Leicester]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780956017925
Subjects: Medieval Cities and towns; Congresses; Cities and towns; Urban archaeology; Romans; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities; Urbanisme; Provinces
Notes: "This monograph contains papers from an international conference held at the University of Leicester on 15th November 2008"--P. xv.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Debating urbanism and change in the late Roman and early Medieval world  -- Neil Christie -- Part 1:; title: Walls and town life -- -- An introduction / -- Simon Esmonde-Cleary; title: Three dying towns: reflections on the immediate post-Roman phase of Napoca, Potaissa and Porolissum  -- Robert Wanner and Eric C. De Sena; title: 'Hoc est civitatis vel potius castri': city-walls and urban status in northern Italy (circa A.D. 493-774)  -- Simona Latimer -- Part 2:; title: Changing urban forms -- -- An introduction / -- David Mattingly; title: Late Roman towns as meaningful places: re-conceptualizing decline in the towns of late Roman Britain  -- Adam Rogers; title: Mind the (archaeological) gap: tracing life in early post-Roman towns  -- Gavin Speed; title: Re-evaluating the Iberian north-west in Late Antiquity  -- Robert Portass -- Part 3:; title: Altering spaces and economies -- -- An introduction / -- John Moreland; title: Dark Earth and insights into changing land use of urban areas  -- Richard I. Macphail; title: Investigating urban change in late antique Italy through waste disposal practices  -- Paul S. Johnson; title: The late antique cathedral of Bergamo: the ceramic context and new perspectives from the 2004-2006 excavations  -- Pietro Negri -- Part 4:; title: Image and belief in the late antique townscape -- -- An introduction / -- Gareth Sears; title: Changing beliefs: the transition from pagan to Christian town in late antique Sicily  -- Denis Sami; title: Ravenna--rise of a late antique capital  -- Enrico Cirelli; title: The display of statues in the late antique cities of the eastern Mediterranean: reflections on memory, meaning, and aesthetics  -- Troels Myrup Kristensen -- Conclusion:; title: Debating urbanism in post-Roman Europe: some thoughts about objectives -- Martin Carver.