The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity : A Study in Resilience

by: Wallace-Hadrill, A.

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The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity
A Study in Resilience

Author: Andrew Wallace-Hadrill , University of Cambridge

The city was one of the central and defining features of the world of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Challenging the idea that the ancient city 'declined and fell', Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that memories of the past enabled cities to adapt and remain relevant in the changing post-Roman world. In the new kingdoms in Italy, France and Spain cities remained a key part of the structure of control, while to contemporary authors, such as Cassiodorus in Ostrogothic Italy, Gregory of Tours in Merovingian Gaul, and Isidore in Visigothic Spain, they remained as crucial as in antiquity. The archaeological evidence of New Cities founded in this period, from Constantinople to Reccopolis in Spain, also shows the deep influence of past models. This timely and exhilarating book reveals the adaptability of cities and the endurance of the Greek and Roman world.

Sheds fresh light on one of the most important social and cultural developments in the transition from classical antiquity to the world of the Middle Ages
Explores developments through the eyes of contemporary writers and documents as well as the archaeological record
Of interest to all those concerned with how cities can adapt in a radically changing world

Table of Contents
1. The end of the ancient city? 2. In praise of the city
3. The city in question
4. The city revived? Cassiodorus and Ostrogothic Italy
5. The city embattled: Procopius and Justinian's Byzantine world
6. The city and it's records: the Ravenna papyri
7. The city of bishops: Gregory of Tours and Merovingian Gaul
8. The grammar of the city: Isidore and Visigothic Spain
9. The fabric of the city: the idea embodied
10. Conclusion: decline and resilience.

Author
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill , University of Cambridge
ANDREW WALLACE-HADRILL is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge and an Emeritus Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. He is a Roman cultural historian and his books include Suetonius: The Scholar and His Caesars (1983), Augustan Rome (1993), Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum (1994), Rome's Cultural Revolution (Cambridge, 2008) and Herculaneum: Past and Future (2011). Former Director of the British School at Rome, he has directed archaeological projects at Pompeii and Herculaneum. This book is the result of his project on the Impact of the Ancient City, which received funding from the European Research Council.

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The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity : A Study in Resilience

by: Wallace-Hadrill, A.

• ISBN-13: 9781009527071
• ISBN-03: 100952707X
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025

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