Atlas of Late Roman Cities in the South of the Iberian Peninsula and the North of Africa (3rd-8th centuries)

伊比利亚半岛南部和非洲北部晚期罗马城市地图集（3-8 世纪）

• 批准号: 449592738
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Sabine Panzram
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsbereich Alte Geschichte
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/449592738?language=en
• 关键词: Atlas; Late; Roman; Cities; South

The research of the last three decades has fundamentally modified our image of the cities of Spain and North Africa: From the perspective of classical studies, the cities’ strength and significance as ruling entities remained unbroken between 300 and 800 A.D. Military-political events such as the "crisis of the 3rd century" or the invasion of the Vandals seem to have barely touched the urban worlds. It is not downfall but transformation that characterises theirurbanism, not change but continuity that describes the functions their social elites fulfilled. This communis opinio is grounded in an astonishingly slim material basis. The aim of the ATLAS project is therefore to create an atlas (WebGIS in Open Access) that record sselected cities in the former Roman provinces Baetica (Andalusia) and Africa Proconsularis (Tunisia) – two economically flourishing regions, who thanks to their high levels of urbanism may be taken as paradigmatic for questions of urban studies. This atlas will be the first to encompass all transmitted records necessary for research into Late Antique urban histories within the context of "micro-regions" – not just material remains, but also epigraphic monuments and the entire spectrum of literary evidence. Here, we concentrate our research on the period between 3rd and 8th century. The selection of case studies from two historical landscapes offers a methodological "novum": A comparison on the basis of these structurally designed case studies enables insight into conformities or discrepancies, leading to productive conclusions for the evaluation of the regional situation as a whole. This comparative urban research is only possible because ATLAS combines German research’s focus on the subjects of ancient history and epigraphy on the Iberian Peninsula with the French focus on the subject of archaeology in both Spain and North Africa. The compilation and analysis of the transmitted records is to serve as the basis of a new narrative of Late Antiquity, which does not – as in previous works on urbanism in this period – rest on analogical conclusions and therefore skew towards generalisations. Moreover, the detailed examination of all types of sources and a methodically clear comparison is aimed at differentiating within the six centuries under investigation. This is aided by visualization of the historical developments in form of thematic maps. ATLAS therefore offers a contribution to urban research and so to the social history of power in the context of the developmentally open and dynamic research field between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. To make this work available to a broader public as well, the project will also be virtualized with the most modern technology, which enables users to individually experience urban history in the context of a travelling exhibition.

过去三十年的研究从根本上改变了我们对西班牙和北非城市的印象：从古典研究的角度来看，城市作为统治实体的力量和意义在公元300年至800年间保持不变，军事政治事件，如“三世纪危机”或汪达尔人的入侵似乎几乎没有触及城市世界。他们的城市化特征不是衰落而是转型，不是变化而是连续性描述了他们的社会精英所履行的职能。这种共产主义观点的物质基础极其薄弱。因此，ATLAS项目的目的是创建一个地图集（开放获取的WebGIS），记录前罗马行省Baetica（安达卢西亚）和Africa Proconsularis（突尼斯）的选定城市，这两个经济繁荣的地区，由于其高度的城市化水平，可以作为城市研究问题的范例。这个地图集将是第一个包含在“微区域”背景下研究晚期古代城市历史所必需的所有传播记录的地图集——不仅仅是物质遗迹，还有铭文纪念碑和整个文学证据。在这里，我们的研究集中在3世纪到8世纪之间。从两个历史景观中选择案例研究提供了方法论上的“创新”：在这些结构设计的案例研究的基础上进行比较，可以洞察一致性或差异，从而得出富有成效的结论，以评估整个地区的情况。由于ATLAS将德国对伊比利亚半岛古代历史和碑文的研究重点与法国对西班牙和北非考古学的研究重点结合起来，这种比较城市研究才成为可能。对传播的记录的汇编和分析是作为古代晚期新叙事的基础，它不像这一时期以前关于城市主义的作品那样，依赖于类比结论，因此倾向于概括。此外，对所有类型的资料进行详细的审查，并有系统地进行明确的比较，目的是在调查的六个世纪内进行区分。这得益于专题地图形式的历史发展可视化。因此，ATLAS为城市研究以及在古代晚期和中世纪早期发展开放和动态的研究领域背景下的社会权力史做出了贡献。为了让更广泛的公众也能看到这一作品，该项目还将使用最现代的技术进行虚拟化，使用户能够在巡回展览的背景下体验城市历史。