(Re)using Ruins: Public Building in the Cities of the Late Antique West, A.D. 300-600 / Douglas R. Underwood.

• Author: Underwood, Douglas R..
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Late Antique Archaeology (Supplementary Series) 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page /; Dedication /; Preface /; Figures /; Abbreviations /; Introduction /; Late Antiquity and the City /; Baths, Aqueducts and Water /; Spectacle Buildings /; Reuse and Public Buildings /; Analysis and Discussion /; Conclusion /; Late Antique Archaeology /; Back Matter --; Timeline of Dates and Events /; Benefaction in the Western Empire /; Roman Public Monuments in the Late Antique West /; Bibliography /; Indices /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004390537
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Douglas R. Underwood.

In (Re)using Ruins , Douglas Underwood presents a new account of the use and reuse of Roman urban public monuments in a crucial period of transition, A.D. 300-600. Commonly seen as a period of uniform decline for public building, especially in the western half of the Mediterranean, (Re)using Ruins shows a vibrant, yet variable, history for these structures. Douglas Underwood establishes a broad catalogue of archaeological evidence (supplemented with epigraphic and literary testimony) for the construction, maintenance, abandonment and reuses of baths, aqueducts, theatres, amphitheatres and circuses in Italy, southern Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, demonstrating that the driving force behind the changes to public buildings was largely a combined shift in urban ideologies and euergetistic practices in Late Antique cities.