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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b8123234.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-231) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 238 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521481856 (hardback)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Italy Ravenna.".
- catalog spatial "Middle East.".
- catalog subject "723 20".
- catalog subject "Architecture Italy Ravenna.".
- catalog subject "Architecture Middle East.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Ancient Middle East.".
- catalog subject "Architecture, Early Christian Italy Ravenna.".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Greco-Roman Influence.".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Greco-Roman.".
- catalog subject "NA212 .W48 1995".
- catalog title "Refiguring the post classical city : Dura Europos, Jerash, Jerusalem, and Ravenna / Annabel Jane Wharton.".
- catalog type "text".