Funerary Landscapes of the Late Antique oecumene - Contextualizing Epigraphic and Archaeological Evidence of Mortuary Practices : Proceedings of an International Conference in Heidelberg, May 30-June 1, 2019

This volume presents the first pan-Mediterranean panorama of Late Antique mortuary practices, combining and contextualizing an abundant dataset of archaeological and epigraphic evidence. In 17 contributions, a group of international specialists discusses funerary evidence from 14 Late Antique landscapes, in order to show the high diversity of microregional and local customs in funerary cultures as well as the significance of global trends. In this volume various new methodological approaches are applied: the materiality of epitaphs and tombs, their visibility, their accessibility, their perception, their setting within shifting spatial environments, as well as their crucial role within social practices. Therefore, this book fundamentally reshapes our understanding of mortuary habits and the commemoration of the dead during the transitional phase of the Long Late Antiquity.

Product details

• Assisted by: Stefan Ardeleanu (Editor), Jon C. Cubas Díaz (Editor)
• Publisher: Heidelberg University Publishing
• Languages: English, French, German, Italian
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2023
• EAN: 9783968222103
• ISBN: 978-3-96822-210-3
• No. of pages: 616
• Dimensions: 182 mm x 260 mm x 39 mm
• Weight: 1332 g
• Illustrations: 134 Farbabb.
• Series: Kulturelles Erbe / Materialität - Text - Edition (KEMTE) 3; Kulturelles Erbe / Materialität ¿ Text ¿ Edition (KEMTE) 3
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity