Main entry:

Wharton, Annabel Jane.

Title & Author:

Refiguring the post classical city : Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem, and Ravenna / Annabel Jane Wharton.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Description:

xvi, 238 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-231) and index.
1. The Scholarly Frame: Orientalism and the Construction of Late Ancient Art History. Marginalizing Practices / Bernard Berenson. The Orient oder Rom Debate / Josef Strzygowski and Giovanni Teresio Rivoira. Nationalism and Racism. Lessons / Erwin Panofsky -- 2. Dura Europos. Modern Histories of Dura: Marking the Edge. Defining Community: Local Space / Local Authority. Visual Discourses -- 3. Jerash and Jerusalem. Urban Order and Visual Discourse: Classical and Post Classical Space in Jerash. The Haptic and the Transformation of the Body. Jerusalem: Space of Frustrated Desire. Jerash and Jerusalem: Space as Spolia. Spatial Agonistics -- 4. Ravenna. Supersession of the Classical. Ritual and the Production of Meaning. The Arian Baptistery: Competing Authorities. Heterotopic Reverberations: Medieval Baptisteries. Reinscription and Erasure -- 5. The Popular Frame: The Use and Reuse of Monuments. East and West: Ritual and Political Difference and Sameness. Modern Histories of Ravenna: Ambivalent Center -- Addendum: Readers' Reports.

Summary:

"In Refiguring the Post Classical City, Annabel Wharton reconsiders the "Christianization" of the classical world between the third and sixth centuries C.E. From Sacrifices in the Temple of Bel and rabbinic discourses in the synagogue of Dura to the baptismal rites of Ravenna, she investigates the architecture and decoration of specific sites in an effort to reconstruct the power of post classical space and representation. That power, Wharton argues, was fundamentally political. The establishment of Christian hegemony left marks of its brutality and violence in the urban landscape like the spectacularized ruins of the Temple of Jerusalem and the severed body parts in the mosaics of S. Apollinare Nuovo. Wharton's book not only uncovers the political ground on which early Christian monuments were constructed, but also discloses the ideological nature of their restitution in the histories of Western culture, demonstrating that the art of the past has a significant political role in the present."--Jacket.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0521481856 (hardback)
9780521481854 (hardback)

Subject:

Architecture, Ancient Middle East.
Architecture Middle East.
Architecture, Early Christian Italy Ravenna.
Architecture Italy Ravenna.
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
Civilization, Greco-Roman Influence.
Architecture antique Moyen-Orient.
Architecture paléochrétienne Italie Ravenne.
Civilisation gréco-romaine Influence.
Architecture Italie Ravenne.
Civilisation gréco-romaine.
Architecture
Architecture, Ancient
Architecture, Early Christian
Städtebau
Architektur
Kunst
Stadt
Rekonstruktion
Zivilisation
Bouwkunst.
Politieke aspecten.
Architecture, Early Christian Middle East.
Cities and towns, Ancient.
Architecture paléochrétienne Italie Ravenne (Italie)
Civilisation gréco-latine influence.
Architecture antique Moyen Orient.
Architecture Moyen-Orient.
Civilisation classique.
architecture romaine antique urbanisme Rome 3e s. 6e s.
architecture paléochrétien.
Italy Ravenna
Middle East
Byzantinisches Reich
Djerash
Dura-Europos
Jerusalem
Ravenna
Dura-Europos (Extinct city)
Gerasa (Extinct city)
Jerusalem (Israel) Buildings, structures, etc.
Ravenna (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 83893
Call No.: ID NA212.W49; ID:95-B3359
Status: Available