Research Catalog

Title

Refiguring the post classical city : Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem, and Ravenna / Annabel Jane Wharton.

Author

Wharton, Annabel Jane.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

xvi, 238 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Summary

"In Refiguring the Post Classical City, Annabel Wharton reconsiders the "Christianization" of the classical world between the third and sixth centuries C.E. From Sacrifices in the Temple of Bel and rabbinic discourses in the synagogue of Dura to the baptismal rites of Ravenna, she investigates the architecture and decoration of specific sites in an effort to reconstruct the power of post classical space and representation. That power, Wharton argues, was fundamentally political. The establishment of Christian hegemony left marks of its brutality and violence in the urban landscape like the spectacularized ruins of the Temple of Jerusalem and the severed body parts in the mosaics of S. Apollinare Nuovo. Wharton's book not only uncovers the political ground on which early Christian monuments were constructed, but also discloses the ideological nature of their restitution in the histories of Western culture, demonstrating that the art of the past has a significant political role in the present."--Jacket.

Subject

• Architecture, Ancient > Middle East
• Architecture > Middle East
• Architecture, Early Christian > Italy > Ravenna
• Architecture > Italy > Ravenna
• Civilization, Greco-Roman
• Civilization, Greco-Roman > Influence
• Civilization, Greco-Roman > Influence
• Architecture
• Architecture, Ancient
• Architecture, Early Christian
• Civilization, Greco-Roman
• Städtebau
• Architektur
• Kunst
• Stadt
• Rekonstruktion
• Zivilisation
• Bouwkunst
• Politieke aspecten
• Architecture, Early Christian > Middle East
• Cities and towns, Ancient
• Architecture paléochrétienne > Italie > Ravenne (Italie)
• Civilisation gréco-latine > influence
• Architecture antique > Moyen Orient
• Architecture > Moyen-Orient
• Architecture > Italie > Ravenne
• Civilisation classique
• Italy > Ravenna
• Middle East
• Byzantinisches Reich
• Djerash
• Dura-Europos
• Jerusalem
• Ravenna
• Dura-Europos (Extinct city)
• Gerasa (Extinct city)
• Jerusalem (Israel) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Ravenna (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. The Scholarly Frame: Orientalism and the Construction of Late Ancient Art History. Marginalizing Practices / Bernard Berenson. The Orient oder Rom Debate / Josef Strzygowski and Giovanni Teresio Rivoira. Nationalism and Racism. Lessons / Erwin Panofsky -- 2. Dura Europos. Modern Histories of Dura: Marking the Edge. Defining Community: Local Space / Local Authority. Visual Discourses -- 3. Jerash and Jerusalem. Urban Order and Visual Discourse: Classical and Post Classical Space in Jerash. The Haptic and the Transformation of the Body. Jerusalem: Space of Frustrated Desire. Jerash and Jerusalem: Space as Spolia. Spatial Agonistics -- 4. Ravenna. Supersession of the Classical. Ritual and the Production of Meaning. The Arian Baptistery: Competing Authorities. Heterotopic Reverberations: Medieval Baptisteries. Reinscription and Erasure -- 5. The Popular Frame: The Use and Reuse of Monuments. East and West: Ritual and Political Difference and Sameness. Modern Histories of Ravenna: Ambivalent Center -- Addendum: Readers' Reports.

ISBN

• 0521481856
• 9780521481854

LCCN

94044727

OCLC

• ocm31753671
• 31753671
• SCSB-2074052

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library