Charles March

Spatial and Religious Transformations in the Late Antique Polis (Bar International Series 1981) Charles March

Using Gerasa and Dura Europos as case studies this book analyses changes in spatial patterns in the Late Antique polis. It seeks to determine how much spatial change should be linked to religious change, as opposed, say to the decline of civic administration or economic change. March finds that enclosure of space is the most readily apparent feature of the Late Antique spatial transformation and that this is characteristic of an early Christian desire to seperate the sacred and the profane.