Fowden, Elizabeth Key
(ed.) (...)
Editorial: Oxbow Books
Colección: Impact of the Ancient City ; 1
Número de páginas: 432 págs. 24.0 x 17.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-01-2022
EAN: 9781789257687
ISBN: 978-1-78925-768-7
Precio (sin IVA): 66,86 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 69,53 €
The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualise cities with deep, living pasts. This volume thinks through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that satisfy our own assumptions about historical periodisation and cultural practice, but which bear little relation to the experience of ancient, medieval or early modern persons. Spanning the period from Constantine’s foundation of a New Rome in the fourth century to the contemporary aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, this book integrates perspectives from scholars typically separated by the disciplinary boundaries of late antique, Islamic, medieval, Byzantine, Ottoman and modern Middle Eastern studies, but whose work is united by their study of a region characterised by resilience rather than rupture. The volume includes an introduction and eighteen contributions from historians, archaeologists and art historians who explore the historical and cultural complexity of eastern Mediterranean cities.