The ‘Decline of Cities’ and the end of classical antiquity
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• Problem of late antique or early Byzantine towns rephrased in terms of urban change.  Evidence of contraction and shifts in urban topography – common throughout the Mediterranean – significant evidence that urban change taking place well before sixth century.  Why?  Individual cases with dominant local factors –deep-seated social and economic change by the end of this period.

Other Notes in this Category

1. Economy and Administration of Early Byzantine Cities
2. Financing the State
3. Interpreting Urban Change
4. Introduction and Overview
5. Nature of Late Antiques Towns
6. Settlement and Population Change
7. The Changing City
8. The Classes of Late Antique Society
9. The eastern Mediterranean – settlement and change
10. The Organistion of Labour
11. The ‘Decline of Cities’ and the end of classical antiquity
12. Trade and Traders - Economics Conclusions
13. Urban change and the end of antiquity
14. Urban Violence

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