Cities as Palimpsests?
The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see)...
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| description | The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that satisfy our own assumptions about historical periodization and cultural practice, but which bear little relation to the experience of ancient, medieval or early modern persons. Spanning the period from Constantine’s foundation of a New Rome in the fourth century to the contemporary aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, this book integrates perspectives from scholars typically separated by the disciplinary boundaries of late antique, Islamic, medieval, Byzantine, Ottoman and modern Middle Eastern studies, but whose work is united by their study of a region characterized by resilience rather than rupture. The volume includes an introduction and eighteen contributions from historians, archaeologists and art historians who explore the historical and cultural complexity of eastern Mediterranean cities. The authors highlight the effects of the multiple antiquities imagined and experienced by persons and groups who for generations made these cities home, and also by travelers and other observers who passed through them. The independent case studies are bound together by a shared concern to understand the many ways in which the cities’ pasts live on in their presents. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-780412025-07-30T21:12:30Z Cities as Palimpsests? Fowden, Elizabeth Key Çağaptay, Suna Zychowicz-Coghill, Edward Blanke, Louise History Ancient Rome Social Science Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see) none, to impose distinctions that satisfy our own assumptions about historical periodization and cultural practice, but which bear little relation to the experience of ancient, medieval or early modern persons. Spanning the period from Constantine’s foundation of a New Rome in the fourth century to the contemporary aftermath of the Lebanese civil war, this book integrates perspectives from scholars typically separated by the disciplinary boundaries of late antique, Islamic, medieval, Byzantine, Ottoman and modern Middle Eastern studies, but whose work is united by their study of a region characterized by resilience rather than rupture. The volume includes an introduction and eighteen contributions from historians, archaeologists and art historians who explore the historical and cultural complexity of eastern Mediterranean cities. The authors highlight the effects of the multiple antiquities imagined and experienced by persons and groups who for generations made these cities home, and also by travelers and other observers who passed through them. The independent case studies are bound together by a shared concern to understand the many ways in which the cities’ pasts live on in their presents. 2022-01-28T04:03:00Z 2022-01-28T04:03:00Z 2022-01-27T05:31:22Z 2021 book OCN: 1289733234 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52588 9781789257700 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78041 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52588/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52588/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52588/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52588/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52588/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/52588/1/external_content.pdf Oxbow Books Oxbow Books 53fda2f2-3fe6-4765-8758-df63da48bd65 9781789257700 European Research Council (ERC) Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Open Services Oxbow Books open access |
| spellingShingle | History Ancient Rome Social Science Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology Cities as Palimpsests? |
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| topic | History Ancient Rome Social Science Archaeology thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology |
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