The Idea and Ideal of the Town Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

The Idea and Ideal of the Town Between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
ISBN-10
9004109013
ISBN-13
9789004109018
Category
History
Pages
265
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
BRILL
Authors
Gian Pietro Brogiolo, Bryan Ward Perkins

Description

This volume collects papers by distinguished European scholars, on the changing perception of the city in the period of transition from the Roman World to the Early Middle Ages. Central themes are the persistence of classical ideals of urban life, within a rapidly-changing world, and the emergence of a new ideal of the city that was specifically Christian.

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