Roman Berytus. Beirut in Late Antiquity. - JONES HALL, Linda,
Beirut in late antiquity
KORTE INHOUD
'Hall sets her work against the long tradition of urban studies, and implicitly aspires to place it in line with the more recent trend of 'postcolonial scholarship'. H. points out that, by the end of the period under consideration (roughly Severus to Heraclius), 'native' languages - Syriac in particular - had experienced a resurgence, and were being used not only for ecclesiastical purposes, but as avenues of legal and literary expression, to rival both Greek and Latin (...). Although the meat of the author's work is contained in the seventh, eighth and ninth chapters, this reader was most captivated by the tenth and final chapter, on 'Artisans, Occupational Identity, and Social Status'. Working primarily from funerary inscriptions and other epigraphic material, H. is able to enumerate at least a few of the most important industreis and occupations in the Roman city, from fishing to textile production to the purple dye industry based on the murex shellfish (...). Given the relative lack of material pertaining...
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London / New York, 2004. XXIII,375p. Original black cloth with dust wrps. Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: JONES HALL, Linda,] [Uitgever: Routledge] [Jaar: 2004] [Titel: Roman Berytus. Beirut in Late Antiquity.]
