Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West: Materials, Agents, and Models

Authors

André Carneiro
University of Évora
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0824-3301
Neil Christie
University of Leicester
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8874-544X
Pilar Diarte-Blasco
University of Zaragoza
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7799-593X
Keywords: Late Antiquity, Urban Archaeology, Agents, Urban Transformations

Synopsis

This volume is the fruit of a highly productive international research gathering academic and professional (field- and museum) colleagues to discuss new results and approaches, recent finds and alternative theoretical assessments of the period of transition and transformation of classical towns in Late Antiquity. Experts from an array of modern countries attended and presented to help compare and contrast critically archaeologies of diverse regions and to debate the qualities of the archaeology and the current modes of study. While a number of papers inevitably focused on evidence available for both Spain and Portugal, we were delighted to have a spread of contributions that extended the picture to other territories in the Late Roman West and Mediterranean. The emphasis was very much on the images presented by archaeology (rescue and research works, recent and past), but textual data were also brought into play by various contributors.

Author Biographies

André Carneiro, University of Évora

André Carneiro was born in Lisbon in 1973. Between 1999 and 2006, he worked as archaeologist in the municipality of Fronteira, where he conducted research programmes about rural settlement in the county territory (Carta Arqueológica do Concelho de Fronteira, published in 2005) and in the Roman rural settlement analysis (Povoamento romano no actual concelho de Fronteira, 2004). Teaching classical archaeology at the University of Évora’s History Department, he completed his PhD in archaeology in 2011 with his present work about the Roman rural sites and settlement architecture in Alto Alentejo, Portugal. Among his additional research focuses are the Roman roads in Alentejo (Itinerários romanos do Alentejo - uma releitura de “as grandes vias da Lusitânia - O itinerário de Antonino Pio” de Mário Saa, cinquenta anos depois, de 2008).

Neil Christie, University of Leicester

Neil Christie is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Leicester in England. He is closely engaged with the Society for Medieval Archaeology (SMA) and is reviews editor for two Uk-based journal. His research focus is on towns and rural development from late Roman to medieval times, especially in Italy, but within Britain also.

Pilar Diarte-Blasco, University of Zaragoza

Pilar Diarte Blasco completed her European PhD in 2011 at the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) and then held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Rome (Italy), before joining the School of Archaeology & Ancient History at the University of Leicester (United Kingdom) following the award of a prestigious Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship (2015-2017), funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Since 2017, she is developing her research, thanks to prestigious research contracts such as the Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación (MICINN, Gobierno de España) and the Programa de Atracción de Talento (Comunidad de Madrid), in the Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid, Spain). Her main research interests are the late antique and early medieval transformations of landscapes and townscapes of the Western Mediterranean basin and their evidence in the archaeological record.

Urban Transformations in the Late Antique West
Published
June 30, 2020

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