Full Description
This book examines a number of themes relating to housing in Late Antiquity. Two extensive bibliographic essays provide an overview of published literature relating to housing in this period. A selection of thematic essays focus on episcopia, lighting, privacy vs. public access, and building regulations. These are complemented by regional syntheses covering Spain and Africa and case studies of recently investigated urban houses from across the Mediterranean, from Gaul to Jordan. Whilst being firmly based in Late Antiquity, the volume also looks forward to Middle Byzantine and Early Islamic housing, with papers on rock-cut houses in Cappadocia and a wealthy dar from Pella in Jordan, destroyed by earthquake, with its inhabitants inside, in A.D. 749.
Contents
List of Figures .. ix
Acknowledgements .. xv
Late Antique Housing and the Uses of Residential Buildings: an Overview .. 1
Simon Ellis
Bibliographic Essays
Housing in Late Antiquity: Thematic Perspectives .. 25
Inge Uytterhoeven
Housing in Late Antiquity: Regional Perspectives .. 67
Inge Uytterhoeven
Episcopia
Domus in Qua Manebat Episcopus: Episcopal Residences in Northern Italy during Late Antiquity (4th to 6th c. A.D.) .. 97
Yuri A. Marano
Architecture and Church Power in Late Antiquity: Canosa and San Giusto (Apulia) .. 131
Guliano Volpe
Episkopeia in Asia Minor .. 169
Burcu Ceylan
Other Thematic Studies
Private Space in Late Antique Cities: Laws and Building Procedures .. 197
Isabella Baldini Lippolis
Public Use and Privacy in Late Antique Houses in Asia Minor: the Architecture of Spatial Control .. 239
Lale Özgenel
Shedding Light on Late Roman Housing .. 283
Simon Ellis
Regional Studies
The Urban Domus in Late Antique Hispania: Examples from Emerita, Barcino and Complutum .. 305
Alexandra Chavarría, Javier Arce and Gisela Ripoll
Late Antique Domus in Africa Proconsularis: Structural and Decorative Aspects .. 337
Francesca Ghedini & Silvia Bullo
Domus and Villa: Late Antique Housing in Carthage and its Territory .. 367
Jeremy Rossiter
Cappadocia's Rock-Cut Courtyard Complexes: a Case Study for Domestic Architecture in Byzantium .. 393
Veronica Kalas
Recently Investigated Urban Houses
A Late Roman House at Éauze (Cieutat), France .. 417
Simon Esmonde Cleary
The Palace of Theoderic at Ravenna: a New Analysis of the Complex .. 425
Andrea Augenti
The Triconch Palace at Butrint: the Life and Death of a Late Roman Domus .. 455
William Bowden and John Mitchell
The House of the Lycian Acropolis at Xanthos .. 475
Anne-Marie Manière-Lévêque
Two Late Antique Residential Complexes at Sagalassos .. 495
Marc Waelkens et al.
The Excavation of an Umayyad Period House at Pella in Jordan .. 515
Alan Walmsley
Index .. 523
