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Refiguring the Post-Classical City : Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem and Ravenna Book

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  • Refiguring the Post-Classical City : Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem and Ravenna
  • Written by author Annabel Jane Wharton
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, 1996/01/26
  • This is a study of the "Christianization" of the city between the third and sixth centuries. The text traces changes in the meaning of urban space and in the ritual practices of Jewish, Christian and Graeco-Roman cults through an investigation of the art
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List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Scholarly Frame: Orientalism and the Construction of Late Ancient Art History 1
Marginalizing Practices 1
The Orient oder Rom Debate 3
Nationalism and Racism 7
Lessons 13
2 Dura Europos 15
Modern Histories of Dura: Marking the Edge 15
Defining Community: Local Space / Local Authority 23
Visual Discourses 33
3 Jerash and Jerusalem 64
Urban Order and Visual Discourse: Classical and Post Classical Space in Jerash 64
The Haptic and the Transformation of the Body 75
Jerusalem: Space of Frustrated Desire 85
Jerash and Jerusalem: Space as Spolia 94
Spatial Agonistics 100
4 Ravenna 105
Supersession of the Classical 105
Ritual and the Production of Meaning 114
The Arian Baptistery: Competing Authorities 131
Heterotopic Reverberations: Medieval Baptisteries 136
Reinscription and Erasure 139
5 The Popular Frame: The Use and Reuse of Monuments 148
East and West: Ritual and Political Difference and Sameness 148
Modern Histories of Ravenna: Ambivalent Center 153
Addendum: Readers' Reports 163
Notes 167
Select Bibliography 198
Index 232


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