Crisis y muerte en la Antigüedad

Reflexiones desde la historia y la arqueología

Edited by José Javier Martínez García Edited by Pedro David Conesa Navarro

Book cover: Crisis y muerte en la Antigüedad

Extent: 230 pages

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing

Subjects: Mediterranean Archaeology, World Archaeology

Language: Spanish

Paperback (Published)

(September 2022)

ISBN: 9781803273525

7.99 x 10.87 inches

Price: $64.00

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This book takes a multidisciplinary and international perspective to analyse periods of crisis in the Ancient World from a historical and archaeological point of view. To this end, the contributors have focused on periods of health and environmental crises, as well as persecutions and periods of famine and starvation during antiquity


Crisis y muerte en la Antiguedad takes a multidisciplinary and international perspective to analyse periods of crisis in the Ancient World from a historical and archaeological point of view. To this end, the contributors have focused on periods of health and environmental crises, as well as persecutions and periods of famine and starvation during antiquity. The first two articles analyse these issues from a global perspective, providing an introductory framework for the volume. The following contributions not only study specific areas such as the Lower Guadalquivir region (Andalusia) or Tierras de Barros (Extremadura) in the Iberian Peninsula, but also other emblematic historical sites such as the city of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt. Martyrdom and the persecution of people of the Christian faith forms another focus, and despite being widely treated by contemporary historiography, new data is provided through the philological and historical analysis of authors such as Orosius, Lactantius, Prudentius and Augustine of Hippo, and through case studies of episodes during the reigns of Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Theodosius. The volume ends with a key theme, the so-called Plague of Justinian. From an archaeological perspective, and centred on the Iberian Peninsula, it offers a concrete overview that complements the information transmitted by classical authors on a phenomenon that occurred throughout the late Roman Empire.

Prologo - Rafael Gonzalez FernandezJose Ramon Carbo GarciaJuan Manuel Martin CasadoLuis-Gethsemani Perez-Aguilar, Paloma Caballero-Marquez, David Gordillo-Salguero y Valvanera Nieto-Dominguezdiscidium social y las perturbaciones humanas - Liliana Pegolo y Nicolas RussoJose Javier Martinez GarciaPedro David Conesa NavarroJose Ignacio Sanchez SanchezMiguel Pablo Sancho GomezQui insultaverant deo, iacent: el castigo divino a los emperadores en Lact. Mort. Pers. - Amparo Mateo Donet y Jonatan Ortiz-GarciaHistoriae adversus paganos de Orosio - Raul Serrano MadronalLa masacre de Tesalonica del ano 390: Historiografia e Historia - Diego Piay AugustoDe Excidio Urbis Romae de San Agustin como relato de la devastacion en el saqueo de Roma: el comienzo del fin - Manuel Ortuno ArreguiM Dolores Hernandez Mayor Jordina Sales-Carbonell

  • Edited by José Javier Martínez García
  • Edited by Pedro David Conesa Navarro