Cities as palimpsests? : responses to antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean urbanism / edited by Elizabeth Key Fowden, Suna Çağaptay, Edward Zychowicz-Coghilland and Louise Blanke.

"The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualise cities with deep, living pasts. This volume thinks through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) no...

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Other Authors: Fowden, Elizabeth Key, 1964- (Editor), Çağaptay, Suna (Editor), Zychowicz-Coghill, Edward P. (Edward Peter), 1986- (Editor), Blanke, Louise (Editor)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [United Kingdom] ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2022.
Series:Impact of the ancient city ; volume 1.
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Online Access:JSTOR Open Access
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Summary:"The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualise cities with deep, living pasts. This volume thinks through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that satisfy our own assumptions about historical periodisation and cultural practice, but which bear little relation to the experience of ancient, medieval or early modern persons. Spanning the period from Constantine's foundation of a New Rome in the fourth century to the contemporary aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, this book integrates perspectives from scholars typically separated by the disciplinary boundaries of late antique, Islamic, medieval, Byzantine, Ottoman and modern Middle Eastern studies, but whose work is united by their study of a region characterised by resilience rather than rupture. The volume includes an introduction and eighteen contributions from historians, archaeologists and art historians who explore the historical and cultural complexity of eastern Mediterranean cities. The authors highlight the effects of the multiple antiquities imagined and experienced by persons and groups who for generations made these cities home, and also by travellers and other observers who passed through them. The independent case studies are bound together by a shared concern to understand the many ways in which the cities' pasts live on in their presents."--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 410 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps, plans.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:1789257689
9781789257687
1789257697
9781789257694
1789257700
9781789257700
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