Crisis y muerte en la Antiguedad: Reflexiones desde la historia y la arqueologia

Crisis y muerte en la Antigüedad es un volumen que analiza los periodos de crisis en el Mundo Antiguo desde un punto de vista histórico y arqueológico, abordando temas como la sanidad, el medio ambiente, persecuciones y hambruna, así como el fenómeno martirial y la persecución de personas de fe cristiana. Se presentan contribuciones que estudian zonas concretas en la península ibérica y otros lugares históricos emblemáticos, y se aportan nuevos datos a través del análisis filológico e histórico de autores clásicos y periodos más generales. El volumen finaliza con un argumento concreto centrado en la Plaga de Justiniano en la península ibérica.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 226 pages
Publication date: 22 September 2022
Publisher: Archaeopress

Crisis and death in ancient times, from a multidisciplinary and international perspective, analyze the periods of crisis in the ancient world from a historical and archaeological point of view. To do this, the different authors have paid attention to the periods of health and environmental crisis, as well as persecution and famine and starvation situations in antiquity. The first two works analyze these issues from a global perspective, providing a perfect introduction to the reader of the topics developed throughout the volume. The following contributions not only study specific areas such as the Lower Guadalquivir region (Andalusia) or the Barros Lands (Extremadura) in the Iberian Peninsula, but also other historical emblematic places such as the Egyptian city of Oxirrinco.

Following a chronological criterion, the martyrdom phenomenon and the persecution of Christian people are addressed. These latter topics, despite being widely treated in contemporary historiography, are brought to light through the philological and historical analysis of authors such as Orosio, Lactancio, Prudencio and Agustín de Hipona, as well as more general periods of specific eras such as the governments of Septimius Severus, Caracalla or Theodosius. The volume concludes with a concrete argument focused, in this case, on the Iberian Peninsula, the so-called Plague of Justinian from an archaeological point of view, bringing a new vision to what the classical authors indicated.

Dimension: 276 x 203 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781803273525