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| HOUSES AND SOCIETY IN THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE Paperback |
| by BOWES, KIM |
Categories:
Archaeology
 European Arch
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ISBN: 0715638823
- ISBN 13: 9780715638828 |
| AAB Internal Code: 4951856 |
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Pubblication year: 2010
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| Arrival date: 12/6/2013 |
| Published by: Bloomsbury Academic (2454) |
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Houses are often assumed to be reliable mirrors of society, fossils of family structures, social hierarchies and mental maps of worlds now vanished. This is particularly true of the elite houses of the third to sixth centuries AD, which have been read as material symptoms of Rome's decline. The great dining and reception halls of urban houses sound the death-knell of participatory government and the rise of patronage politics, while in their sheer size and splendour later Roman houses seem to encapsulate a fin-de-siecle world of have and have-nots, separated by unbridgeable social chasms. Kim Bowes debates this image of later Roman houses as reflections of decadence and despotism. She suggests that the principal interpretive model, one that reads such houses as reflective of a newly hierarchical, ritualized society, finds little support either from the archaeological evidence or from new readings of historical sources. Drawing on the most recent archaeological data and new theoretical models, she offers instead a less sharply periodized view of later houses, stressing their continuity with houses of the early empire.; The book suggests that rather than relics of a decadent, hierarchical world, these houses bespeak a competitive elite society, one set in motion by the socio-economic reforms of Diocletian, Constantine and their successors. |
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