Social and Political Life in Late Antiquity (Late Antique Archaeology, Volume 3.1)

688 Pages·2006·7.43 MB·English

by  William Bowden

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
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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
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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.