The End of the Pagan City: Religion, Economy, and Urbanism in Late Antique North Africa

Anna Leone (Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, Durham University)

The End of the Pagan City: Religion, Economy, and Urbanism in Late Antique North Africa
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
6 June 2013
Pages
344
ISBN
9780199570928

The End of the Pagan City: Religion, Economy, and Urbanism in Late Antique North Africa

Anna Leone (Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, Durham University)

This book focuses primarily on the end of the pagan religious tradition and the dismantling of its material form in North Africa (modern Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) from the 4th to the 6th centuries AD. Leone considers how urban communities changed, why some traditions were lost and some others continued, and whether these carried the same value and meaning upon doing so. Addressing two main issues, mainly from an archaeological perspective, the volume explores the change in religious habits and practices, and the consequent recycling and reuse of pagan monuments and materials, and investigates to what extent these physical processes were driven by religious motivations and contrasts, or were merely stimulated by economic issues.

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