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Title

Aesthetic maintenance of civic space

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  • Monograph
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LCC: MLCM 2025/42022 (N) (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

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Summary

During the Roman period the construction and maintenance of civic infrastructure and monuments, such as bath buildings, theatres, fountains, arches, statues and so on were regarded as the normal duty of well-off citizens, who constituted the local government. For the subsequent period, encompassing the 4th to the 7th century AD, it has long been assumed that changing social and political conditions within the Roman Empire resulted in a severe reduction of expenditure and concurrent loss of sentimental and aesthetic attitudes towards public space. This book challenges this assumption. It assesses the care still given to monuments and public space in the cities in the Eastern Mediterranean, reconstructs how the city represented itself, and focuses on the protagonists in this field. First, it evaluates the diverse initiators of interventions and their motivation. Second, the skills of the actual constructors are looked into in order to judge their identity and number. Third, the priorities of the viewers and use of public space.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Description of the subject -- Fortifications -- Streets and squares -- Decorative monuments -- Religious architecture -- Statuary -- Late Antique and early Byzantine architectural changes -- Initiators and constructors -- Using urban space -- Conclusion. Aesthetic maintenance of the civic landscape -- Appendix 1. Short description of core sites -- Appendix 2. Overview of monuments discussed

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Jacobs, I. (Ine). Aesthetic maintenance of civic space

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  • Date: 2026-09-30T17:49:41.024778+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 24132136

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  • Date: 2026-09-30
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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