Cities and gods : religious space in transition / edited by Ted Kaizer, Anna Leone, Edmund Thomas, and Robert Witcher.
Contributor(s): Kaizer, Ted
| Leone, Anna | Thomas, Edmund (Edmund V.) | Witcher, Robert E
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TextSeries: Bulletin antieke beschaving: 22.Publisher: Leuven ; Walpole, MA : Peeters, 2013Description: vii, 173 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans ; 28 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789042929050 (pbk.); 9042929057 (pbk.)Subject(s): Sacred space -- Mediterranean Region | Cities and towns, Ancient -- Mediterranean Region | Mediterranean Region -- Religion | Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities | Architecture and religion | Mediterranean Region -- Religious life and customsBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BL687 .C457 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903244552 |
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"This volume originates in a conference Cities and gods: interdisciplinary perspectives, organized by the editors of the present volume at St John's College, Durham, on 6-7 July 2007"--Page vii.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part 1. Religious architecture in urban contexts -- Introduction : religious architecture in the Roman Empire, East and West / Edmund Thomas -- The Capitoline temples of Rome and its colonies, Cosa and Pompeii / John Stamper -- Gods, worshippers and temples in the Roman West / Louise Revell -- Changing spaces and shifting attitudes : revisiting the sanctuary of Zeus in Gerasa / Rubina Raja -- Part 2. Ritual and perception of sacred urban space -- Introduction : cities and gods, then and now / Michael J. Crosbie -- Cities, gods, empire / Clifford Ando -- Temples for Egyptian gods within an urban landscape : the Roman Iseum Campense and the Red Hall of Pergamon as case studies / Martin Bommas -- Creating civic space through religious innovation? The case of the post-Seleucid Beqaa Valley / Michael Sommer -- Temple architecture and urban boundaries in Gaul and Britain : two worlds or one? / Penelope Goodman -- Part 3. The impact of new religious traditions on civic space -- Introduction : charting and interpreting the impact of new religious traditions on civic space / Neil Christie -- Gortyn : from city of the gods to Christian city / Isabella Baldini Lippolis & Giulio Vallarino -- Characteristics of the Christianisation of space in late antique Rome : new considerations a generation after Charles Pietri's Roma Christiana / Lucrezia Spera -- From Belenus to Peter and Paul : Christianity and the protection of the city in late antiquity / Claire Sotinel -- Christian ceremonial and the earthly city / Allan Doig.