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Spatial and Religious Transformations in the Late Antique Polis: A multi-disciplinary analysis with a case-study of the city of Gerasa
Charles March
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This work looks at basic questions pertaining to sacred space and applies them to several well documented archaeological sites with strong material remains, interpreting the meanings and causes of the changes in spatial patterns that occurred within the late Antique polis in the East. The study is based on both physical and abstract spatial dimensions (the 'real' and metaphysical) of civic and sacred landscapes that defined the Classical and Early Christian city 'types'. The archaeological sites of Gerasa of Jordan and Dura Europos of Syria were selected as interpretive models due to their strong archaeological records and architectural representations. While the main aim of the work is to explain the end of the classical city in the East, Dura remains frozen in time for us depicting the pre-Christian, pagan city sitting on the historical razor edge just prior to the events initiating monumental civic change.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION
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SECTION I GRECO-ROMAN AND MODERN THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURAL SPACE
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCING THE PROBLEM OF ARCHITECTURAL SYMBOLISM
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CHAPTER 2 A QUESTION OF LANDSCAPES
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CHAPTER 3 THE HUMAN IMAGE AND ARCHITECTURE OF SPATIAL ORDER
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CHAPTER 4 VITRUVIAN CONCEPTS OF SPATIAL ORDER
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CHAPTER 5 ROMAN SURVEYING: THE EARTH RECEIVES THE COSMOS
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CHAPTER 6 NEUROLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR HUMAN SPATIAL CONCEPTION
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SECTION II HUMANITY’S PURSUIT OF THE DIVINE IN ARCHITECTURAL SPACE
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CHAPTER 7 PAGAN LANDSCAPES
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CHAPTER 8 JUDAISM: BIBLICAL SPATIAL IMAGERY AND THE ARCHITECURE AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE SYNAGOGUE
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CHAPTER 9 CHRISTIANITY: THE SPIRITUALITY OF INTERIOR SPACE AND TRANSPORTATIONAL HOLY PLACES
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CHAPTER 10 SYNTHESIS
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SECTION III GERASA and DURA EUROPOS
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MAP OF GERASA
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CHAPTER 11 GERASA: INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER 12 CLASSICAL BUILDINGS I: WALL AND GATES
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CHAPTER 13 CLASSICAL STRUCTURES II: PLACES OF CONGREGATION AND PASSAGE
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CHAPTER 14 CLASSICAL STRUCTURES III: SPACES OF WORSHIP AND THE TEMPLES OF ZEUS AND ARTEMIS
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CHAPTER 15 CLASSICAL STRUCTURES IV: PLACES OF ENTERTAINMENT AND RELAXATION
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CHAPTER 16 GERASA’S CHURCHES: ARCHITECTURE AND TOPOGRAPHY
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CHAPTER 17 THE CHRISTIAN HOUSE-CHURCH (DOMUS ECCLESIA) AT DURA-EUROPOS
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CHAPTER 18 CHRISTIAN SPATIALITY IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
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CHAPTER 19 CONCLUSION
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Published: 2009
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407305134 (paperback)
- 9781407335001 (ebook)
BAR Number: S1981