Cities as Palimpsests? Responses to Antiquity in Eastern Mediterranean Urbanism

The metaphor of the palimpsest has been increasingly invoked to conceptualize cities with deep, living pasts. This volume seeks to think through, and beyond, the logic of the palimpsest, asking whether this fashionable trope slyly forces us to see contradiction where local inhabitants saw (and see)...

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Other Authors: Fowden, Elizabeth Key (Editor), Çağaptay, Suna (Editor), Zychowicz-Coghill, Edward (Editor), Blanke, Louise (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Oxbow Books 2021
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