La ville défigurée

The Roman world did not experience the modern fascination for ruins. However, derelict or damaged buildings were present in the ancient cities. In a centuries-long Empire, natural disasters, human violence or simply the course of time could contribute to destroy and deteriorate buildings. What was t...

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description The Roman world did not experience the modern fascination for ruins. However, derelict or damaged buildings were present in the ancient cities. In a centuries-long Empire, natural disasters, human violence or simply the course of time could contribute to destroy and deteriorate buildings. What was to be done with the inevitable ruins which remained in the landscape? This book aims at examining textual sources, especially epigraphic and legal texts, and archaeological evidence, to understand how the people of the Empire, as well as civic authorities and Roman power, perceived ruined private and public buildings and dealt with them. As an intermediary state between presence and absence, ruins have always been a problem and created disruption in the urban space. Public authorities and Roman jurists recommend not to destroy urban dwellings. Literary sources and inscriptions celebrate benefactors who restored a public monument struck by a disaster or by the injury of time. Dilapidated buildings have always been considered as a disfiguration of the urban landscape and destroyed cities remind or announce times of trouble. On the contrary, perpetuating the city requires to preserve and regularly restore buildings. Therefore, ruins are a counter-model which by contrast reveals an ideal: architecture shall constitute the city’s ornament and contribute to the emperor’s golden age.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1715952026-02-12T11:27:45Z La ville défigurée Davoine, Charles Ruines Empire romain Haut-Empire romain Antiquité tardive Histoire urbaine de monde romain Cité Occident romain Droit romain Épigraphie latine thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMX History of architecture thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDA European history: the Romans The Roman world did not experience the modern fascination for ruins. However, derelict or damaged buildings were present in the ancient cities. In a centuries-long Empire, natural disasters, human violence or simply the course of time could contribute to destroy and deteriorate buildings. What was to be done with the inevitable ruins which remained in the landscape? This book aims at examining textual sources, especially epigraphic and legal texts, and archaeological evidence, to understand how the people of the Empire, as well as civic authorities and Roman power, perceived ruined private and public buildings and dealt with them. As an intermediary state between presence and absence, ruins have always been a problem and created disruption in the urban space. Public authorities and Roman jurists recommend not to destroy urban dwellings. Literary sources and inscriptions celebrate benefactors who restored a public monument struck by a disaster or by the injury of time. Dilapidated buildings have always been considered as a disfiguration of the urban landscape and destroyed cities remind or announce times of trouble. On the contrary, perpetuating the city requires to preserve and regularly restore buildings. Therefore, ruins are a counter-model which by contrast reveals an ideal: architecture shall constitute the city’s ornament and contribute to the emperor’s golden age. 2026-02-12T11:27:42Z 2026-02-12T11:27:42Z 2021 book 9782356136503 9782356133663 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/171595 fre Scripta Antiqua image/jpeg n/a https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9782356136503/from/openedition https://books.openedition.org/ausonius/23482 Ausonius Éditions 10.4000/14c2a The Roman world did not experience the modern fascination for ruins. However, derelict or damaged buildings were present in the ancient cities. In a centuries-long Empire, natural disasters, human violence or simply the course of time could contribute to destroy and deteriorate buildings. What was to be done with the inevitable ruins which remained in the landscape? This book aims at examining textual sources, especially epigraphic and legal texts, and archaeological evidence, to understand how the people of the Empire, as well as civic authorities and Roman power, perceived ruined private and public buildings and dealt with them. As an intermediary state between presence and absence, ruins have always been a problem and created disruption in the urban space. Public authorities and Roman jurists recommend not to destroy urban dwellings. Literary sources and inscriptions celebrate benefactors who restored a public monument struck by a disaster or by the injury of time. Dilapidated buildings have always been considered as a disfiguration of the urban landscape and destroyed cities remind or announce times of trouble. On the contrary, perpetuating the city requires to preserve and regularly restore buildings. Therefore, ruins are a counter-model which by contrast reveals an ideal: architecture shall constitute the city’s ornament and contribute to the emperor’s golden age. 10.4000/14c2a bfc06fa5-0f79-4168-bed3-99215f2f51e2 9782356136503 9782356133663 433 Pessac open access
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La ville défigurée
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Empire romain
Haut-Empire romain
Antiquité tardive
Histoire urbaine de monde romain
Cité
Occident romain
Droit romain
Épigraphie latine
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDA European history: the Romans
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Histoire urbaine de monde romain
Cité
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Droit romain
Épigraphie latine
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