City Walls and the Fortification of ‘Interior’ Provinces in the Later Roman West
We cordially invite everyone to attend the following day seminar on late Roman city walls:
Grand strategy? Defense in Depth? Desperation?
City Walls and the Fortification of ‘Interior’ Provinces in the Later Roman West
Tuesday 19 May 2009
13.15-16.30
University of Aarhus, Bldg 1414, Room 407
Speakers:
Neil Christie, University of Leicester
‘Walled out or walled in? Changing urban roles and identities in late Roman Italy’
Hendrik Dey, University of Aarhus
‘Grand strategy,’ propaganda and the ideology of city walls in late antiquity
Simon Esmonde Cleary, University of Birmingham
‘Walls and their significance for the nature of towns in late Roman Gaul’
Gareth Sears, University of Birmingham
Strategic defence or urban ideology? City walls and their importance in late Roman Africa