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dc.contributor.advisorRautman, Marcus Louis, 1955-eng
dc.contributor.authorUnderwood, Douglas, 1984-eng
dc.coverage.spatialFrance, Southerneng
dc.date.issued2009eng
dc.date.submitted2009 Falleng
dc.descriptionThe entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file.eng
dc.descriptionTitle from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on January 20, 2010).eng
dc.descriptionThesis advisor: Dr. Marcus Rautman.eng
dc.descriptionM.A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2009.eng
dc.description.abstractThe movement from the Roman to the medieval world is one of the most significant transitional moments of Western history. One of the most visible aspects of that transition is the installation of circuit walls that transform urban landscape. The first major wave of fortification in western Europe was carried out in the late Roman empire during the late third and early fourth century. These urban defenses, especially those in Roman Gaul, provide important information regarding late Roman urbanism and the state of the empire in the late third century. Earlier scholarship has seen all the Gallic enceintes built during the third century as hastily constructed and enclosing only the core of a city. This thesis takes the three largest cities in Roman south Languedoc-Narbonne, Carcassonne and Toulouse -and reexamines the evidence, both archaeological and literary, about the city walls. I conclude that these walls, indeed built in the late third or early fourth century, were not hastily constructed and did not only enclose a small portion of the city. Further, the construction of monumental walls at this date shows a level of economic vitality. This argues against the commonly assumed dismal situation and suggests that the problems of the "third-century crisis" did not affect south Gaul in ways previously thought.eng
dc.description.bibrefIncludes bibliographical references.eng
dc.identifier.oclc501042797eng
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.32469/10355/5340eng
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10355/5340
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.publisherUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
dc.relation.ispartofcommunityUniversity of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertationseng
dc.rightsOpenAccess.eng
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.sourceSubmitted by University of Missouri--Columbia Graduate School.eng
dc.subject.lcshUrban landscape architectureeng
dc.subject.lcshFrance, Southern -- Antiquities, Romaneng
dc.subject.lcshFortification, Romaneng
dc.titleWriting on the wall : late-third century urban defenses in south Languedoceng
dc.typeThesiseng
thesis.degree.disciplineArt history and archaeology (MU)eng
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
thesis.degree.levelMasterseng
thesis.degree.nameM.A.eng


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