Rebuilding Histories in the Roman World
Architectural Restoration and Temporality from Augustus to Justinian
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 31 October 2025
- ISBN 9781009564700
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Weight 500 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
Reveals the ways in which Roman and late antique patrons shaped perceptions of time by revising and reactivating preexisting architecture.
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In this book, Ann Marie Yasin reveals the savvy and subtle ways in which Roman and late Roman patrons across the Mediterranean modulated connections to the past and expectations for the future through their material investments in old architecture. Then as now reactivation and modification of previously built structures required direct engagement with issues of tradition and novelty, longevity and ephemerality, security and precarity-in short, with how time is perceived in the built environment. The book argues that Roman patrons and audiences were keenly sensitive to this. It traces spatial and decorative configurations of rebuilt structures, including temples and churches, civic and entertainment buildings, roads and aqueducts, as well as the ways such projects were marked and celebrated through ritual and monumental text, to chart how local communities engaged with the time of their buildings at a material, experiential level over the course of the first six centuries CE.
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Introduction: architectural temporalities; Part I. Patrons and Communities: Present, Pasts, and Futures: 1. Virtues of restoration; 2. Celebration time: calendrical manipulation and participatory architecture; 3. Futures protected? Divine pledges, architectural safeguards, and material fragility; Part II. Architectural Autobiographies: (Re)Building Inscriptions Writing the Shape of Time: 4. Restorations' assembled records: accumulative epigraphy and benefaction across time; 5. Infrastructure and the temporalities of roman roads; 6. The old and/in the new: commemorating rebuilding and evoking ruins past; Part III. 'Unmarked' Changes: Material and Spatial Temporalities: 7. Ornament revised: material transformation and temporal orientations; 8. Un-monumental histories: placemaking and somatic time in adapted buildings; Conclusion: the times of Roman and late roman rebuilding.
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