L'entretien des centres civiques dans les provinces occidentales de l'Empire (IVe-VIIe siècles)

• Autores: Marc Heijmans
• Localización: Antiquité tardive: revue internationale d'histoire et d'archéologie, ISSN 1250-7334, Nº. 26, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Le gouvernement des cités dans l’Antiquité tardive (IVe-VIIIe siècles)), págs. 73-83
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • This article deals, for the western part of the Empire, with the question of the maintenance and survival of the civic centers of the High Empire during late Antiquity. Because of the changes in the municipal administration, its financial management, the takeover of the so-called "barbarian" peoples, and the emergence of Christianity, the buildings of the civic centers (forum, curia, basilica) have become useless and may have underwent rather different evolutions, between a simple abandonment, a re-use or a voluntary dismantling for the reuse of building materials. The chronology of these events, however, varies from one region to another, sometimes as early as the third century, notably in Gaul, but in most cases, abandonment does not occur before the end of the fourth century or the beginning of the fifth century. The rise of Christianity as a state religion under Theodosius is probably one of the explanations of this evolution.