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Title

Signs of weakness and crisis in the western cities of the Roman Empire (c. II-III AD) / edited by Javier Andreu and Aitor Blanco-Pérez.

Publication

• Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2019]
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

• Andreu Pintado, Javier, 1973-
• Blanco Pérez, Aitor, 1987-

Description

232 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

At the end of the 2nd century AD the urban network of the Roman Empire was subject to weakness and crisis. We know this on one hand through decrees from the Flavian era, comments of Pliny the Younger on the financial problems of some cities and on the other hand through notices in the Historia Augusta reporting the existence of oppida labentia ? "cities in decline".0In this volume, we discuss some of these issues with the following questions: was the municipal system, at least in the Roman West and, particularly in Roman Spain, a useful and sustainable model of managing local autonomy? Was it a durable system? Were new cities more fragile than others in terms of financial sustainability? What were the causes and the indicators signalling the lack of strength of many urban centres from the 2nd century AD onwards?

Series Statement

• Alte Geschichte
• Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; Band 68

Uniform Title

• Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany)
• Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; Bd. 68.

Subjects

• 30 B.C.-476 A.D
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• History, Ancient
• Rome > Antiquities
• Rome > Civilization
• Rome > History
• Rome (Empire)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• 13 English, 3 Spanish contributions.

Contents

Unstable cities : some questions about Roman urbanism / Nicholas Purcell -- Challenges and threats faced by municipal administration in the Roman West during the High Empire : the Hispanic case / Javier Andreu -- Imperial responses to urban crisis in the Roman Empire : a conceptual approach / Aitor Blanco-Pérez -- The vectigalia income in western Roman cities : a particular assumption / Lourdes Martínez de Morentin -- Tantam pecuniam male perdiderunt : aqueducts and municipal investment in Hispania / Javier Martínez -- From municipia Latina to oppida labentia : bases for a model of the ideological and institutional causes behind the crisis of the Latin municipal system in Hispania / David Espinosa -- The urban decline of Sisapo-La Bienvenida (Ciudad Real, Spain) : signs and archaeological evidence / Mar Zarzalejos ; Carmen Fernández-Ochoa ; Patricia Hevia ; Germán Esteban ; Rosa Pina -- Carthago Nova between the 2nd and 3rd Centuries AD : the decline and urban crisis of a Roman city in South-Eastern Hispania / Alejandro Quevedo -- Modelling the Late Antique urban crisis : the Ebro Valley explored / Pilar Diarte-Blasco -- Rupturas del modelo urbano en los siglos II-III d C en las ciudades hispanorromanas de la Meseta Sur / Juan Francisco Palencia -- Lucentum : nacimiento, vida y extinción de un municipio de la provincia Tarraconensis / Antonio Guilabert ; Manuel H Olcina ; Eva Tendero -- Las últimas decisiones del ordo decurionum de Segobriga Evidencias arqueológicas del funcionamiento de la vida pública municipal a partir del siglo II d C. / Rosario Cebrián -- The Late Iulia Lybica in the context of the Peninsular Pyrenees / Cèsar Carreras ; Jordi Guardia ; Josep Guitart -- Changes in the city network in Roman Hispania / Laurent Brassous -- The cities that never were (?) : connectivity between urban settlements and the rural landscape in Lusitania during Late Antiquity / André Carneiro -- Salvian of Marseilles and the end of the ancient city / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.

Call Number

JFE 19-11670

ISBN

• 9783515124065
• 3515124063

LCCN

9783515124065

OCLC

1108644759

Title

Signs of weakness and crisis in the western cities of the Roman Empire (c. II-III AD) / edited by Javier Andreu and Aitor Blanco-Pérez.

Publisher

Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Alte Geschichte

Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; Band 68

Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany)

Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; Bd. 68.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

13 English, 3 Spanish contributions.

Chronological Term

30 B.C.-476 A.D.

Added Author

Andreu Pintado, Javier, 1973- editor.

Blanco Pérez, Aitor, 1987- editor.

Other Form:

9783515124089 e-book version

Other Standard Identifier

9783515124065

Research Call Number

JFE 19-11670