City and Sanctuary: Religion and Architecture in the Roman Near East. By Peter Richardson. Pp. xiv + 209. London: SCM Press, 2002. isbn 0 334 02884 1. Paper £12.95
Richardson presents in this work a brief résumé of the urban landscape of five cities in the eastern empire in periods of significant urban development for each, between the end of the first century bce and the end of the second ce. His aim is to examine the impact of Romanization upon indigenous cu...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 652-654 |
| Review of: | City and sanctuary (London : SCM Press, 2002) (Day, Juliette)
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| Summary: | Richardson presents in this work a brief résumé of the urban landscape of five cities in the eastern empire in periods of significant urban development for each, between the end of the first century bce and the end of the second ce. His aim is to examine the impact of Romanization upon indigenous culture and to reclaim architectural and material evidence for the study of the history of religions. The five cities he has chosen, Palmyra, Petra, Gerasa, Caesarea Maritima, and Jerusalem, all display periods of intense urban development, in part driven by Roman influence, but also by the political and economic stability which, more or less, the empire enjoyed in that period. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli168 |