TY - BOOK ID - 32201936 TI - New cities in Late Antiquity : documents and archaeology AU - Rizos, Efthymios AU - Brepols PY - 2017 VL - 35 SN - 9782503555515 2503555519 9782503564920 PB - Turnhout Brepols DB - UniCat KW - Cities and towns, Medieval. KW - Cities and towns, Ancient. KW - City and town life. KW - Urbanization. KW - Urban archaeology. KW - Siedlungsarchäologie. KW - Cities and towns, Medieval KW - Cities and towns, Ancient KW - City and town life KW - Urbanization KW - Urban archaeology KW - Congresses KW - History KW - Stadt. KW - To 1500. KW - Cities and towns, Medieval - Congresses KW - Cities and towns, Ancient - Congresses KW - City and town life - History - To 1500 - Congresses KW - Urbanization - Congresses KW - Urban archaeology - Congresses UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32201936 AB - The foundation of new cities and towns is a particular aspect of urban history in Late Antiquity. Decades of archaeological work on sites like Iustiniana Prima, Dara, Rusafa, Androna and Zenobia provided ample material on specific cases, but we are still far from having a coherent picture of the background and impact of city foundations in Late Antiquity. Dictated by government decision or favoured by economic and demographic growth, newly-founded cities are witnesses of the realities, needs and ideals of urbanism in their own time and they provide a perspective which is quite different from the usual problems of transformation and decline of pre-existing Graeco-Roman cities. This volume, deriving from a workshop organized in Istanbul in November 2013, brings together studies by archaeologists working on sites that were founded or developed as urban centres during Late Antiquity (3rd to 7th century AD). On the base of case studies and synthetic approaches it is attempted to draw a comprehensive picture of the state of research and a theoretical discussion on the motives and characteristics of city-building and settlement development in Late Antiquity. ER -