Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity

Luke Lavan, Ellen Swift, Toon Putzeys, Marc Waelkens, Jeroen Poblome, Wim van Neer, Bea de Cupere, Thijs van Thuyne, Nathalie Kellens, Alan Walmsley, John Mitchell, Joanita Vroom, Sauro Gelichi, Jennifer Baird, Elias Khamis, Anne-Marie Manière Lévêque, Maria Parani, Mary Harlow, Béatrice Caseau, Vincent Michel, Zbigniew Fiema, Andrew Gardner, Andrew Poulter, and Pam Grinter.

ISBN 10: 9004165509 / ISBN 13: 9789004165502

Published by Brill, 2008

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2008 Brill hardcover edition. Ex library copy with stamps and labels else good condition.

Contents:

1, 'Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: Sources, Approaches, and Field Methods' by Luke Lavan, Ellen Swift and Toon Putzeys;
2, 'Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: An Introduction to the Bibliography' by Luke Lavan and Toon Putzeys;
3, 'Domestic Space in Late Antiquity' by Toon Putzeys;
4, 'Productive Space in Late Antiquity' by Toon Putzeys;
5, 'Commercial Space in Late Antiquity' by Toon Putzeys and Luke Lavan;
6, 'Political Space in Late Antiquity' by Luke Lavan;
7, 'Social Space in Late Antiquity' by Luke Lavan;
8, 'Religious Space in Late Antiquity' by Luke Lavan;
9, 'Contextual Analysis at Sagalassos' by Toon Putzeys, Marc Waelkens, Jeroen Poblome, Wim van Neer, Bea de Cupere, Thijs van Thuyne and Nathalie Kellens;
10, 'Households at Pella, Jordan: Domestic Destruction Deposits of the Mid-8th c.' by Alan Walmsley;
11, 'Keeping the Demons out of the House: the Archaeology of Apotropaic Strategy and Practice in Late Antique Butrint and Antigoneia' by John Mitchell;
12, 'The Archaeology of Late Antique Dining Habits in the Eastern Mediterranean: A Preliminary Study of the Evidence' by Joanita Vroom;
13, 'The Modena Well-hoards: Rural Domestic Artefact Assemblages in Late Antiquity' by Sauro Gelichi;
14, 'Decorated Vessels: The Function of Decoration in Late Antiquity' by Ellen Swift;
15, 'Shopping, Eating and Drinking at Dura Europos: Reconstructing Contexts' by Jennifer Baird;
16, 'The Shops of Scythopolis in Context' by Elias Khamis;
17, 'An Unusual Structure on the Lycian Acropolis at Xanthos' by Anne-Marie Maniere Leveque;
18, 'Defining Personal Space: Dress and Accessories in Late Antiquity' by Maria Parani;
19, 'The Impossible Art of Dressing to Please: Jerome and the Rhetoric of Dress' by Mary Harlow;
20, 'Objects in Churches: The Testimony of Inventories' by Beatrice Caseau;
21, 'Furniture, Fixtures, and Fittings in Churches: Archaeological Evidence from Palestine (4th-8th c.) and the Role of the Diakonikon' by Vincent Michel;
22, 'Storing in the Church: Artefacts in Room I of the Petra Church' by Zbigniew Fiema;
23, 'Ordinary Objects in Christian Healing Sanctuaries' by Beatrice Caseau;
24, 'Soldiers and Spaces: Daily Life in Late Roman Forts' by Andrew Gardner;
25, 'Interpreting Finds in Context: Nicopolis and Dichin Revisited' by Andrew Poulter;
26, 'Grappling with the Granary: Context issues at Dichin' by Pam Grinter.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004165509
• ISBN 13: 9789004165502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ancient World

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Synopsis

This book promotes the study of material spatiality in late antiquity: not just the study of buildings, but of the people, dress and objects used within them, drawing on all available source material. It seeks to explore the material world as it was lived in late antiquity, in an interpretative inquiry, rather than simply describing the evidence that has survived until today. The volume presents a series of comprehensive bibliographic essays which provide an overview of relevant literature, along with discussions of the nature of the sources, of relevant approaches and field methods. The main section of the book explores domestic space, vessels in context, dress, shops and workshops, religious space, and military space. Synthetic papers drawing on a wide range of archaeological, art-historical and textual sources are complemented by case-studies of context-rich late antique sites in the East Mediterranean and elsewhere, including Pella, Dura-Europos, Scythopolis, and Sagalassos.

About the Author

Luke Lavan is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His doctorate (2001) considered Provincial Capitals in Late Antiquity. He has edited conference volumes on late antique urbanism, the countryside and historical methodology, and is series editor of Late Antique Archaeology.

Ellen Swift is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Kent, Canterbury. She has particular interests in artefact studies, late Roman dress, and Roman art. Her forthcoming book on Roman decoration is to be published by Ashgate.

Toon Putzeys works for the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project of the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven. His doctorate (2006) considered Contextual Analysis at Sagalassos, a classical city with important late antique levels in the mountains of South-West Turkey.