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Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity (Late Antique Archaeology) by Luke Lavan; Ellen Swift; Toon Putzeys; E.J. Brill (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity (Late Antique Archaeology) about?

This book promotes the study of material spatiality in late antiquity: not just the study of buildings, but of the people, dress and objects used within them, drawing on all available source material. It seeks to explore the material world as it was lived in late antiquity, in an interpretative inquiry, rather than simply describing the evidence that has survived until today. The volume presents a series of comprehensive bibliographic essays which provide an overview of relevant literature, along with discussions of the nature of the sources, of relevant approaches and field methods. The main section of the book explores domestic space, vessels in context, dress, shops and workshops, religious space, and military space. Synthetic papers drawing on a wide range of archaeological, art-historical and textual sources are complemented by case-studies of context-rich late antique sites in the East Mediterranean and elsewhere, including Pella, Dura-Europos, Scythopolis, and Sagalassos.

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Author

Luke Lavan; Ellen Swift; Toon Putzeys; E.J. Brill (Firm)

Publisher

Brill Academic Publishers

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004165502

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Anthropology