(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.

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page / Douglas Underwood -- Dedication / Douglas Underwood -- Preface / Doug Underwood -- Figures / Douglas Underwood -- Abbreviations / Douglas Underwood -- Introduction / Douglas Underwood -- Late Antiquity and the City / Douglas Underwood -- Baths, Aqueducts and Water / Douglas Underwood -- Spectacle Buildings / Douglas Underwood -- Reuse and Public Buildings / Douglas Underwood -- Analysis and Discussion / Douglas Underwood -- Conclusion / Douglas Underwood -- Late Antique Archaeology / Douglas Underwood -- Back Matter -- Timeline of Dates and Events / Douglas Underwood -- Benefaction in the Western Empire / Douglas Underwood -- Roman Public Monuments in the Late Antique West / Douglas Underwood -- Bibliography / Douglas Underwood -- Indices / Douglas Underwood.