The end of the pagan city : religion, economy, and urbanism in late antique North Africa /

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Author / Creator:Leone, Anna, 1967- author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description:xxii, 319 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9345480
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ISBN:9780199570928
0199570922
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Paganism and Christianity in Late Antique North Africa
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What Paganism and What Christianity?
  • 3. Sacred and Secular: Augustine and his Contemporaries
  • 4. From Paganism to Christianity: Donatism, the Circumcelliones
  • 5. Vandal and Byzantine Conquests: An Overview
  • 6. Urban Monumentality and Religiosity in Late Antique North Africa: A Summary
  • 7. The End of Paganism in Late Antique North Africa
  • 2. The Fate of Pagan Religious Architecture: Was there a Conversion from the Temple to the Church?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The End of Temple Maintenance and Restoration
  • 3. Emperors, Legislation, and the Fate of Temples
  • 4. Cult Prohibition: The Archaeological Evidence of Private Cults
  • 5. Post-Closure Temple Maintenance: The Legislation
  • 6. The Fate of Temples: Use and Reuse of Buildings in North Africa
  • 7. The End of Temples: An Ideological Event?
  • 3. Pagan Continuity and Christian Attitudes: When did Paganism End?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Sacerdotes and Flamines in Late Antique North Africa
  • 3. Fifth-Century Evidence: The Vandal Period
  • 4. Calendars and Games: The Case of Late Antique North Africa
  • 5. The Buildings of the Imperial Cult
  • 6. The Last Official Dedication of Imperial Statues: New Urban Settings and Display
  • 7. Conclusions
  • 4. The Fate of Statues: Legacy of the Past or Economic Casualties?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Evidence from Legislation and Written Sources
  • 3. Statues and the Classical Tradition
  • 4. Statues and Markets
  • 5. Destruction and Deposition of Statues
  • 6. Statues and Textual Evidence from Africa
  • 7. Damnatio memoriae and Destruction
  • 8. Statues Buried, or Left in Pits, Wells, Cisterns, and Rooms of Derelict Buildings
  • 9. Statues in Excavated Public Buildings
  • 10. Carthage and the Case of the Antonine Baths-the Borj Jedid Area
  • 11. The Temple of Apollo at Bulla Regia: Museum or Warehouse?
  • 12. Thugga/Dougga and the Temple of Saturn: A Case Study
  • 13. Between Pagans and Christians: Statues and Symbols
  • 5. Spolia in Churches: Recycling in Late Antique Building Activity
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Spolia: Economy, Style, and Symbolism
  • 3. Style and Marbles in Late Antique North Africa
  • 4. Trade to Late Antique North Africa
  • 5. Imported Marbles in Context: The Case of Carthage
  • 6. Urban Workshops
  • 7. Early Byzantine Architecture and its Language: The North African Perspective
  • 8. Marble Decoration in Byzantine Sabratha
  • 9. Basilica I in Sabratha: Church Decorations
  • 10. Spolia and Trade: Between Secular Life and Economy
  • 6. Secular Life in Late Antique North Africa
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. What Pagans and What Christians?
  • 3. Statues and Supply
  • 4. Marbles and Spolia: Symbols or Required Objects?
  • 5. Secular Life in Late Antique North Africa
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1
  • Inscriptions attesting to flamines and sacerdotales recorded in North Africa from the fourth century
  • Appendix 2
  • 1. Basilica I in the forum of Sabratha
  • 2. Spolia and reuse in Basilica I at Sabratha
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Places and Buildings