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Item Number: 124833
Title: The End of the Pagan City : Religion, Economy, and Urbanism in Late Antique North Africa
Author: Leone, Anna
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780199570928
Description: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 368pp., 53 illus. Summary: This book focuses primarily on the end of the pagan religious tradition and the dismantling of its material in North Africa (modern Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD. Leone considers how urban communities changed, why some traditions were lost and some others continued, and whether these carried the same value and meaning upon doing so. Addressing two main issues, mainly from an archaeological perspective, the volume explores the change in religious habits and practices, and the consequent recycling and reuse of pagan monuments and materials, and investigates to what extent these physical processes were driven by religious motivations and contrasts, or were merely stimulated by economic issues. Contents: 1. Paganism and Christianity in Late Antique North Africa. 2. The Fate of Pagan Religious Architecture: Was there a Conversion from the Temple to the Church? 3. Pagan Continuity and Christian Attitudes: When did Paganism End? 4. The Fate of Statues: Legacy of the Past or Economic Casualties? 5. Spolia in Churches: Recycling in Late Antique Building Activity. 6. The World of the Profane in Late Antique North Africa.
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