Author: Douglas R. Underwood
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004390537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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In (Re)using Ruins, Douglas Underwood presents the history of Roman urban public monuments in the Late Antique West, demonstrating that their vibrant, yet variable, development was closely tied to significant shifts in urban ideologies and euergetistic patterns.
Author: Els Rose
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031485610
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Author: Jonathan Wood
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789259975
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Economic circularity is the ability of a society to reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products. This concept has gained momentum in academia, in part due to contemporary environmental concerns. Although the blurry conceptual boundaries of this term are open to a wide array of interpretations, the scholarly community generally perceives circular economy as a convenient umbrella definition that encompasses a vast array of regenerative and preservative processes. Despite the recent surge of interest, economic circularity has not been fully addressed as a macrophenomenon by historical and archaeological studies. The limitations of data and the relatively new formulation of targeted research questions mean that several processes and agents involved in ancient circular economies are still invisible to the eye of modern scholarship. Examples include forms of curation, maintenance, and repair, which must have had an influence on the economic systems of premodern societies but are rarely accounted for. Moreover, the people behind these processes, such as collectors and scavengers, are rarely investigated and poorly understood. Even better-studied mechanisms, like reuse and recycling, are not explored to their full potential within the broader picture of ancient urban economies. This volume stems from a conference held at Moesgaard Museum supported by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Centre for Urban Networks Evolutions (UrbNet) at Aarhus University. To enhance our understanding of circular economic processes, the contributions in this volume aim to expand the framework of the discussion by exploring circular economy over the longue durée and by integrating an interdisciplinary perspective. Furthermore, the volume wants to give prominence to classes of material, processes, agents, and methodologies generally overlooked or ignored in modern scholarship.
Author: Gavin Speed
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784910058
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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The focus of this book is to draw together still scattered data to chart and interpret the changing nature of life in towns from the late Roman period through to the mid-Anglo-Saxon period. Did towns fail? Were these ruinous sites really neglected by early Anglo-Saxon settlers and leaders?
Author: Luke Lavan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004423826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1737
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This book looks at secular urban space in the Mediterranean city, A.D. 284-650, focusing on places where people from different religious and social group were obliged to mingle. It looks at streets, processions, fora/ agorai, market buildings, and shops.
Author: Mark Humphries
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004422617
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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This study examines how cities have become an area of significant historical debate about late antiquity, challenging accepted notions that it is a period of dynamic change and reasserting views of the era as one of decline and fall.
Author: Hendrik W. Dey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107069181
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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This book offers a new perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Author: Sofie Remijsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107050782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
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A comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic feature of ancient Greek culture, disappeared in late antiquity.
Author: Javier Martínez Jiménez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789089647771
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The first work to address the end of Roman Hispania and the emergence of Medieval Spain from a principally archaeological perspective
