ON THE MEANING OF CITY WALLS IN LATE ROMAN SPAIN
<p>During three or four decades of the late 3rd and early 4th century, a number of cities across the Empire were refortified in a pattern that cannot be explained in defensive terms alone. Regional and especially local authorities seem to have played a decisive role in the process, and Lusitan...
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doaj-64fd6475f0a04a2c89cd63a4ad53b61b2021-07-25T16:12:16ZengMega Publishing House Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology2360-266X2017-07-014210.14795/j.v4i2.237167ON THE MEANING OF CITY WALLS IN LATE ROMAN SPAINAdriaan De Man0United Arab Emirates University<p>During three or four decades of the late 3rd and early 4th century, a number of cities across the Empire were refortified in a pattern that cannot be explained in defensive terms alone. Regional and especially local authorities seem to have played a decisive role in the process, and Lusitania is a clear case of non-military initiative. About a dozen sites, a minority that is, did invest in these new structures, which were highly disruptive to daily life, private property, and public resources. These same cities would find a relevance in the post-Roman world, as bishoprics and as military structures, an argument probably absent in their original builders’ purpose.</p>http://jaha.org.ro/index.php/JAHA/article/view/237city defences, tetrarchy, annona, walls, spain |
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<p>During three or four decades of the late 3rd and early 4th century, a number of cities across the Empire were refortified in a pattern that cannot be explained in defensive terms alone. Regional and especially local authorities seem to have played a decisive role in the process, and Lusitania is a clear case of non-military initiative. About a dozen sites, a minority that is, did invest in these new structures, which were highly disruptive to daily life, private property, and public resources. These same cities would find a relevance in the post-Roman world, as bishoprics and as military structures, an argument probably absent in their original builders’ purpose.</p> |
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