The Decline and Fall of the Roman City
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 February 2003
- ISBN 9780199261093
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages500 pages
- Size 234x157x25 mm
- Weight 703 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 halftones and numerous maps 0
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Short description:
Professor Liebeschuetz examines what happened to the cities of the Roman world in the years when the Roman Empire disintegrated. He traces the end of classical political culture, the impact of Christianization, and a progressive simplification of lifestyles in the lands, both East and West, that had been the Roman Empire.
MoreLong description:
This book discusses the changes which occurred in the cities of the Roman world in the period AD 400- 750. The cities of the Middle Ages, both in the East and Western parts of the old Roman Empire, differed from classical cities in fundamental ways. Professor Liebeschuetz concludes that this suggests a decline and fall in the Roman cities. At the centre of this book is an account of the decline of cities as political organizations: the replacement of government in accordance with constitutional rules by a looser and much more informal kind of oligarchical control which was paralleled by the rise of the bishop.
Professor Liebeschuetz argues that among the factors that transformed and undermined the Roman city the most conspicuous were related to the state of the Empire, economic developments which were consequences of the breaking up of the imperial structure, as well as more localized regional circumstances. The decline and fall of the Roman city was accompanied by very great changes in life style which can be summarized as simplification and localization. Further he concludes that Christianity by teaching people to despise the things of this world helped them to come to terms with the deterioration of their worldly circumstances.
This paperback issue of Liebeschuetz's important 2001 monograph is excellent news ... the book is distinctive for its wide learning, elegant written style and historical argument.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Survival of the Cities
Post-curial Civic Government
The Rise of the Bishop
Civic Finance in the Late Roman Cities of the East
Shows and Factions
Transformation of Greek Literary Culture under the Influence of Christianity
Conflict and Disorder in the East
Decline and th Beginnings of Renewal in hte East, including the Eastern Balkans
The Transformation of Literary Culture in the West under the Influence of Christianity
The Decline of Classical Citizenship and the Rise of Ethnic Solidarity in the West
Decline and the Beginnings of Renewal in the West
Summary and Conclusions
