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SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE IN LATE ANTIQUITY LATE ANTIQUE ARCHAEOLOGY Editorial Board SERIES EDITOR LUKE LAVAN COMMITTEE MEMBERS Albrecht Berger Averil Cameron Beatrice Caseau James Crow Simon Ellis Sauro Gelichi Lale Özgenel Jean-Pierre Sodini Bryan Ward-Perkins Enrico Zanini VOLUME 3.1 – 2005 SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE IN LATE ANTIQUITY EDITED BY WILLIAM BOWDEN ADAM GUTTERIDGE and CARLOS MACHADO CONCEIVED AND CO-ORDINATED BY LUKE LAVAN LEIDEN •BOSTON 2006 Cover illustration: Interior visualisation of the Alacami. The mosaic tabula ansafabearing the dedi- catory inscription is visible in the south side. Brill has done its best to establish rights to use of the materials printed herein. Should any other party feel that its rights have been infringed we would be glad to take up contact with them. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Social and political life in late Antiquity / edited by William Bowden, Adam Gutteridge, and Carlos Machado ; conceived and co-ordinated by Luke Lavan. p. cm. — (Late antique archaeology, ISSN 1570-6893 ; v. 3) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-90-04-14414-9 ISBN-10: 90-04-14414-5 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Social history—To 500. 2. Social change—Political aspects—History—To 1500. 3. Power (Social sciences)—History—To 1500. 4. Social classes—History—To 1500. 5. Social archaeology. 6. Archaeology and history. I. Bowden, William. II. Gutteridge, Adam. III. Machado, Carlos. IV. Title. V. Series. HN9.S62 2006 937—dc22 2006051692 ISSN 1570-6893 ISBN-10: 90 04 14414 5 ISBN-13: 978 90 04 14414 9 © Copyright 2006 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. 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CONTENTS Acknowledgements ...................................................................... ix List of contributors .................................................................... xi Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity: an Introduction .... xv Adam Gutteridge and Carlos Machado Bibliographic Essays Political Life in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay .......... 3 Luke Lavan Social Life in Late Antiquity: a Bibliographic Essay .............. 41 Lukas Schachner The Roman State: From Identity to Policy Constructing Roman Identities in Late Antiquity? Material Culture on the Western Frontier .......................... 97 Ellen Swift Coins and Politics in the Late Roman World ........................ 113 Richard Reece The Emperor and his Monuments Civil War and Public Dissent: the State Monuments of the Decentralised Roman Empire ........................................ 141 Emanuel Mayer Building the Past: Monuments and Memory in the Forum Romanum .................................................................. 157 Carlos Machado vi contents The City: Social and Political Change Fora and Agorai in Mediterranean Cities during the 4th and 5th c. A.D. .............................................................. 195 Luke Lavan The Control of Public Space and the Transformation of an Early Medieval town: a Re-examination of the Case of Brescia .................................................................................... 251 Gian Pietro Brogiolo Churches and Power Architecture and Power: Churches in Northern Italy from the 4th to the 6th c. .............................................................. 287 Gisella Cantino Wataghin Dark Age Rome: Towards an Interactive Topography ........ 311 Kate Cooper, Julia Hilner and Conrad Leyser A New Temple for Byzantium: Anicia Juliana, King Solomon and the gilded ceiling in the Church of St Polyeuktos in Constantinople .......................................... 339 Jonathan Bardill The Middle Class Artisans and Traders in the Early Byzantine City: Exploring the Limits of Archaeological Evidence .............. 373 Enrico Zanini Middle Class Houses in Late Antiquity .................................. 413 Simon Ellis contents vii The Poor in Texts Constructed and Consumed: Everyday Life of the Poor in 4th c. Cappadocia ............................................................ 441 Susan Holman Poverty and Society in the World of John Chrysostom ........ 465 Wendy Mayer The Poor and Archaeology The Urban Poor: Finding the Marginalised ............................ 487 Steve Roskams Rural Impoverishment in Northern Gaul at the End of Antiquity: the Contribution of Archaeology ........................ 533 Paul Van Ossel Socio-Cultural Change Some Aspects of Social and Cultural Time in Late Antiquity .................................................................... 569 Adam Gutteridge Social Transformation in the 6th–9th c. East ........................ 603 John Haldon Index .......................................................................................... 649 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank all contributors to both this volume and the two conferences, as well as all those who helped organise and sub- sidise both events. Bryan Ward-Perkins was joint convenor at Oxford and advisory editor for this volume. Yuri Marano organised the ses- sion in Padova, thanks to the generosity of Gian Pietro Brogiolo. The Craven Fund Committee, the Oxford Byzantine Studies Commit- tee, the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara and the British Academy provided generous grants towards the cost of the Oxford meeting. At Oxford, Lukas Schachner’s organisation was outstand- ing. Finally, our thanks go to Julian Deahl for agreeing to publish these papers and to him, Marcella Mulder, Gera van Bedaf and others at Brill for their work on this manuscript.
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