IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 702: RomanIslam, III: Transforming Cities
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | RomanIslam - Center for Comparative Empire & Transcultural Studies |
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| Organiser: | Antonia Bosanquet, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures & Societies, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Antonia Bosanquet, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures & Societies, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Paper 702-a | City of Suburbs?: Islamic Palermo / Balarm and Its Extramural Districts (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Secular, Demography, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 702-b | The City and Its Satellites: The Transformation of the Urban Territorium in the Hispanic Provinces after the Fall of Rome (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - Secular, Demography |
| Paper 702-c | Reuse in Post-Roman Western Societies: A Comparative Approach between Christian and Islamic Attitudes towards Recycling and Spolia (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 702-d | Islamic Foundations as Military Cities (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Demography, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Abstract | 'Transforming Cities' examines processes of transformation in urban spaces in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. One focus is the relations between the city and its extramural districts. How did expansion outside the urban core, or the incorporation of rural spaces into an urban network, create new connections that influenced the transformation of the city itself? The panel will also address the chronological entanglement between the Islamic and the Christian lives of cities. How did rulers or urban authorities recycle and reuse objects and structures of symbolic significance, either to retain their meaning, or to award them a new relevance as the urban landscape evolved? |