Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest

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Edipuglia srl, 2007 - Architecture - 356 pages
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"This book examines the complex transition of North Africa from the Late Roman period to the Arab conquest, focusing on three provinces: Zeugitana, Byzacena and Tripolitana. In particular, it considers the continuity and transformation of towns, as a result of economic, political and social changes. The period sees the wide diffusion of Christianity, the imposition of Vandal rule and Arianism, the presence of a new Empire and the Arab/Muslim takeover. It is also a period of archaeological and material transition: physically towns changed and classical structures, in particular, decayed and were reused. The evidence considered here encompasses a wide range of material, including publications from 1800 (Italian and French colonial excavations) to modern times. These data form the basis for a detailed review of archaeological evidence in this geographical area and for the analysis of the processes of evolution that characterised North African cities"--
 

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Contents

Section 1
48
Section 2
50
Section 3
56
Section 4
64
Section 5
72
Section 6
77
Section 7
83
Section 8
85
Section 12
157
Section 13
163
Section 14
176
Section 15
187
Section 16
188
Section 17
202
Section 18
211
Section 19
229

Section 9
88
Section 10
94
Section 11
107
Section 20
231
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