Luke Lavan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1704988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Lavan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Lavan |
| SIGNATURE | LAVAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 15 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Late Antique Archaeology
Local Economies?: Production and Exchange of Inland Regions in Late Antiquity
The Roman economy was operated significantly above subsistence level, with production being stimulated by both taxation and trade. Some regions became wealthy on the basis of exporting low-value agricultural products across the Mediterranean. In contrast, it has usually been assumed that the high costs of land transport kept inland regions relatively poor. This volume challenges these assumptions by presenting new research on production and excha…
Late Antique Archaeology
Late Antique Archaeology
Late Antique Archaeology
Public Space in Late Antique Ostia: Excavation and Survey in 2008-2011
This article presents the work of the University of Kent section of the Late Antique Ostia Project, which since 2008 has studied the evolution of public space in the central area of the city, in conjunction with the Humboldt University of Berlin. This research has sought to detect and document Late Antique remains within a clearance-excavated classical site using minimally invasive methods. It has demonstrated that Ostia saw a level of investment…
The Archaeology of Late Antique 'Paganism'
The archaeology of late antique "paganism"
"There is no agreement over how to name the 'pagan' cults of late antiquity. Clearly they were more diverse than this Christian label suggests, but also exhibited tendencies towards monotheism and internal changes which makes it difficult to describe them as 'traditional cults'. This volume, which includes two extensive bibliographic essays, considers the decline of urban temples alongside the varying evolution of other focii of cult practice and…
Archaeology of Late Antique 'Paganism'
Political Talismans? Residual ‘Pagan’ Statues In Late Antique Public Space
Preliminary material
Abstracts in French
Political Talismans? Residual ‘Pagan’ Statues in Late Antique Public Space
This article explores the fate of certain statues of pagan gods and heroes that were displayed not in temples but in streets, squares and public buildings. These images had a functional connection to the civic activities that took place there, especially political activities. An attempt is made to detect to what extent such functional connections were retained or disrupted in Late Antiquity. The fate of images of Victory, Tyche, Minerva, civic he…
Religious diversity in late antiquity
Late Antique Archaeology
Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: Sources, Approaches and Field Methods
This introduction to the volume discusses sources for the reconstruction of material spatiality, problems with the evidence, potential approaches to interpretation, and methodologies of field archaeology in relation to the recovery of the high quality evidence necessary for spatial approaches to the material
Social Space in Late Antiquity
Monumental streets were amongst the most popular form of public building in Late Antiquity, with new or restored examples known from imperial and provincial capitals and from many lesser-ranking cities. Pagan religious processions are attested for the 4th c. and very early 5th c. Scenes of animal victims being led to sacrifice are depicted on Tetrarchic reliefs at Rome and Thessalonica and are described in literary sources under Julian at Antioch…
Political Space in Late Antiquity
Political, social and religious space in Late Antiquity differs from commercial, productive and domestic space for a number of reasons. Architecture can be a useful source, as political and religious buildings had distinctive forms, but these forms did not always relate closely to the exact function of buildings. It has long been stressed that imperial and royal palaces were residences, built in the tradition of elite domestic architecture. Praet…
Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: An Introduction to the Bibliography
The conception of spatial types in this chapter, depends primarily on those found in literary sources, set within wider categories suggested by contemporary research. Thus in political space one finds ?praetoria', ?fora' and so on, and in religious space ?churches', ?synagogues' and ?temples'. In the author's view the cultural spatial concepts found in textual sources are the best ways of structuring enquiry into space in Late Antiquity, especial…
Commercial Space in Late Antiquity
Commercial space in the ancient city involved an integration of retail with small-scale craft production. This chapter concentrates on the evidence for a number of possible activities in shops and small workshops which functioned as points of manufacture and sale in cities. Literary sources provide some descriptions of commercial activities taking place in cities such as Rome, Carthage, Constantinople, Antioch, Emesa, Edessa, Beirut and Alexandri…
Religious Space in Late Antiquity
Literary sources, though providing some compelling details on changes in religious practice, are not wholly reliable: pagans, after the late 4th c. had little reason to publicise their ceremonies and much of what the author knows about some cults is based on the resumes of Christian commentators, who inevitably look at temples with a Christian agenda. Nevertheless, the author possesses some pagan descriptions of ceremonies, and accounts of specif…
Preliminary material
Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity
This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines material spatiality in late antiquity. Synthetic papers drawing on archaeological, art-historical and textual sources, are complemented by case-studies of sites, an introductory essay, and several bibliographic essays.
Technology in Transition A.D. 300-650
This book is the first general work to be published on technology in Late Antiquity. It seeks to survey aspects of the technology of the period and to respond to questions about technological continuity, stagnation and decline. The book opens with a comprehensive bibliographic essay that provides an overview of relevant literature. The main section then explores technologies in agriculture, production (metal, ceramics and glass), engineering and …
Technology in transition: A.D. 300-650 / edited by Luke Lavan, Enrico Zanini and Alexander Sarantis ; with the assistance of Ine Jacobs, Dirk Booms, Bart de Graeve.
This work surveys the aspects of technology of late antiquity and explores technological continuity, stagnation, and decline. The papers presented in this volume are derived from a meeting of Late Antique Archaeology held in 2004. The book treats several subjects such as agriculture, production (metal, ceramic, and glass), engineering, and building. The geographic scope is primarily Italian athough sNorth Africa, Asia Minor and the Near East are …
Public Space in Late Antique Ostia: Excavation and Survey in 2008-2011
This article presents the work of the University of Kent section of the Late Antique Ostia Project, which since 2008 has studied the evolution of public space in the central area of the city, in conjunction with the Humboldt University of Berlin. This research has sought to detect and document Late Antique remains within a clearance-excavated classical site using minimally invasive methods. It has demonstrated that Ostia saw a level of investment…
Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology
The Political Topography of the Late Antique City: Activity Spaces in Practice
The Political Topography of the Late Antique City: Activity Spaces in Practice
The political topography of the late antique city is a subject that has been largely neglected. This is largely because research has concentrated on new buildings, mainly churches, rather on than the re-use of older structures and because textual evidence has been neglected. In this article aspects of political topography are examined in terms of ‘activity spaces’. This involves studying discrete units of human activity, plus their material setti…
Preliminary material
Late Antique Urban Topography: From Architecture to Human Space
Writing about the late antique city is dominated by topographical mapping, architectural studies and site syntheses. These approaches operate within a conception of space as the location of points within an imaginary grid. However, other notions of space exist. This paper proposes a move away from the location and description of physical remains towards a study of human spatiality. It also seeks to re-establish the study of topography at a genera…
Preliminary material
Political Life in Late Antiquity: A Bibliographic Essay
Fora and Agorai in Mediterranean Cities During the 4th and 5th C. A.D
This article reviews the nature of fora and agorai during the late 3rd–5th c. A.D., and investigates the material appearance and everyday functions of these spaces. It revises the thesis of T. Potter’s Towns in Late Antiquity , through drawing upon a wider range of archaeological evidence and literary sources, which provide vivid details about everyday activities. It is argued that in many cities, especially in the East, fora / agorai were still …
Preliminary material
The Agorai of Antioch and Constantinople as Seen by John Chrysostom
Journal Article THE AGORAI OF ANTIOCH AND CONSTANTINOPLE AS SEEN BY JOHN CHRYSOSTOM Get access LUKE LAVAN LUKE LAVAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 50, Issue Supplement_91, March 2007, Pages 157–167, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2007.tb02386.x Published: 27 July 2011
Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity
This collection of papers, arising from the conference series Late Antique Archaeology, examines material spatiality in late antiquity. Synthetic papers drawing on archaeological, art-historical and textual sources, are complemented by case-studies of sites, an introductory essay, and several bibliographic essays.
Technology in Transition A.D. 300-650
This book is the first general work to be published on technology in Late Antiquity. It seeks to survey aspects of the technology of the period and to respond to questions about technological continuity, stagnation and decline. The book opens with a comprehensive bibliographic essay that provides an overview of relevant literature. The main section then explores technologies in agriculture, production (metal, ceramics and glass), engineering and …
Technology in transition: A.D. 300-650 / edited by Luke Lavan, Enrico Zanini and Alexander Sarantis ; with the assistance of Ine Jacobs, Dirk Booms, Bart de Graeve.
This work surveys the aspects of technology of late antiquity and explores technological continuity, stagnation, and decline. The papers presented in this volume are derived from a meeting of Late Antique Archaeology held in 2004. The book treats several subjects such as agriculture, production (metal, ceramic, and glass), engineering, and building. The geographic scope is primarily Italian athough sNorth Africa, Asia Minor and the Near East are …
Technology in Transition A. D. 300-650
Objects in Context, Objects in Use: Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity
Objects in context, objects in use: Material spatiality in late Antiquity
"This book promotes, the study of material spatiality in Late Antiquity: not just the study of buildings. but of the people, dress and objects used within them, drawing on all available source material. It seeks to explore the material world as it was lived in late antiquity, in an interpretative inquiry, rather than simply describing the evidence that has survived until today. The volume presents a series of comprehensive bibliographic essays wh…
Preliminary material
Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: Sources, Approaches and Field Methods
This introduction to the volume discusses sources for the reconstruction of material spatiality, problems with the evidence, potential approaches to interpretation, and methodologies of field archaeology in relation to the recovery of the high quality evidence necessary for spatial approaches to the material
Social Space in Late Antiquity
Monumental streets were amongst the most popular form of public building in Late Antiquity, with new or restored examples known from imperial and provincial capitals and from many lesser-ranking cities. Pagan religious processions are attested for the 4th c. and very early 5th c. Scenes of animal victims being led to sacrifice are depicted on Tetrarchic reliefs at Rome and Thessalonica and are described in literary sources under Julian at Antioch…
Political Space in Late Antiquity
Political, social and religious space in Late Antiquity differs from commercial, productive and domestic space for a number of reasons. Architecture can be a useful source, as political and religious buildings had distinctive forms, but these forms did not always relate closely to the exact function of buildings. It has long been stressed that imperial and royal palaces were residences, built in the tradition of elite domestic architecture. Praet…
Material Spatiality in Late Antiquity: An Introduction to the Bibliography
The conception of spatial types in this chapter, depends primarily on those found in literary sources, set within wider categories suggested by contemporary research. Thus in political space one finds ?praetoria', ?fora' and so on, and in religious space ?churches', ?synagogues' and ?temples'. In the author's view the cultural spatial concepts found in textual sources are the best ways of structuring enquiry into space in Late Antiquity, especial…
Commercial Space in Late Antiquity
Commercial space in the ancient city involved an integration of retail with small-scale craft production. This chapter concentrates on the evidence for a number of possible activities in shops and small workshops which functioned as points of manufacture and sale in cities. Literary sources provide some descriptions of commercial activities taking place in cities such as Rome, Carthage, Constantinople, Antioch, Emesa, Edessa, Beirut and Alexandri…
Religious Space in Late Antiquity
Literary sources, though providing some compelling details on changes in religious practice, are not wholly reliable: pagans, after the late 4th c. had little reason to publicise their ceremonies and much of what the author knows about some cults is based on the resumes of Christian commentators, who inevitably look at temples with a Christian agenda. Nevertheless, the author possesses some pagan descriptions of ceremonies, and accounts of specif…
Preliminary material
Religious diversity in late antiquity
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