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Late Antique Archaeology 11-12, 2018
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This book is the first to closely examine the location of the earliest purpose-built Christian bu... more This book is the first to closely examine the location of the earliest purpose-built Christian buildings inside the city of Rome in their contemporary context. It argues that some of these were deliberately sited by their builders so as to utilise prominent positions within the urban landscape or to pragmatically reuse pre-existing bath facilities for Christian liturgical practice. Several examples are discussed with the latest archaeological discoveries explored. Two particular case studies are also examined within the Subura area of the city, and their urban location is examined in relation to the commercial, religious, social and public spaces around them, known through a 3rd century A.D. survey of the city. Certain other Christian basilicas in the city encroached or blocked roads, were situated by main arterial highways, were located on hills and eventually reused prestigious public buildings. Other examples were located by potent ‘pagan’ sites or important places of public congregation, with two structures suggesting the political astuteness of a 4th century pope. This book shows that the spatial Christianisation of Rome was not a random and haphazard process, but did at times involve projects that strategically built new Christian centres in places that would visually or practically enhance what were generally small and modest structures.
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Late Antique Archaeology 9, Nov 2013
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Late Antique Archaeology 7, 2011
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Articles by Michael Mulryan
Urban Interactions: Communication and Competition in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Networks and Neighbours), 2020
A micro examination of a region of Ostia in late antiquity. Paths of movement, accessibility, and... more A micro examination of a region of Ostia in late antiquity. Paths of movement, accessibility, and how the road space was used and interacts with the buildings off it, are the foci of the study. This analysis gives us some insights into the spatial 'working' of late antique Ostia as a whole.
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A Forgotten City: New Archaeological Research on Late Antique Ostia (forthcoming)
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A Forgotten City: New Archaeological Research on Late Antique Ostia (forthcoming)
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The Moving City
This article argues that from about the 7th century A.D. a narrative-driven itinerary was created... more This article argues that from about the 7th century A.D. a narrative-driven itinerary was created within the streets of Rome to allow individuals to follow in the footsteps of the popular martyr deacon Lawrence. Three Christian centres were founded at about this time (with a fourth a few centuries later) that laid claim to be built on the site of important places in the recently canonised passion of Lawrence, sites that led up to and marked the place of his death. There are no real comparable narrative-driven devotional itineraries for holy men, heroes or deities in the pre-Christian Classical world, with only Remus in Rome coming close, so this seems to be a Christian innovation.
Key words: Rome, Lawrence, Martyrdom, churches, Hercules, Remus, nodes, paths.
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Religious Practices and the Christianisation of the Late Antique City, ed. A. Busine (2015) 166-78.
This paper looks at one form of 'Christianisation': spatial Christianisation, and its impact. It ... more This paper looks at one form of 'Christianisation': spatial Christianisation, and its impact. It does this by focusing on two 'ordinary' Christian buildings constructed within a typical neighbourhood in the city of Rome, and discusses the roads, monuments and buildings around it.
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Cults, Creeds and Identities in the Greek City after the Classical Age, 2013
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TRAC 2011, 2012
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The Archaeology of Late Antique 'Paganism', 2011
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The Archaeology of Late Antique 'Paganism', 2011
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History Today, Nov 2012
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Book Reviews by Michael Mulryan
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Journal of Late Antiquity, 2015
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Ancient West and East
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Ancient West and East, 2014
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Books by Michael Mulryan
Articles by Michael Mulryan
Key words: Rome, Lawrence, Martyrdom, churches, Hercules, Remus, nodes, paths.
Magazine articles by Michael Mulryan
Book Reviews by Michael Mulryan
Talks by Michael Mulryan
Key words: Rome, Lawrence, Martyrdom, churches, Hercules, Remus, nodes, paths.
Ian Wood – Introduction
Lisa Kaaren Bailey – “The Innocence of the Dead Crowned You, the Glory of the Triumphant Crowned Me”: The Strange Rivalry between Bethlehem and Lyon in Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon 11
Michael Burrows – Tours vs. Bourges: The Secular and Ecclesiastical Discourse of Inter-City Relationships in the Accounts of Gregory of Tours
Ann Christys – Did All Roads Lead to Córdoba under the Umayyads?
Dimitris J. Kyrtatas – Religious Conflict in Roman Nicomedia
Javier Martínez Jiménez – Reccopolitani and Other Town Dwellers in the Southern Meseta during the Visigothic Period of State Formation
Pedro Mateos Cruz – Augusta Emerita in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of Its Urban Layout During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries CE
Michael Mulryan – The So-Called “Oriental Quarter” of Ostia: Regions III.XVI–VII, a Neighborhood in Late Antiquity
Isabel Sánchez Ramos – Looking through Landscapes: Ideology and Power in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo
Mark Lewis Tizzoni – Locating Carthage in the Vandal Era
Douglas Underwood – Good Neighbors and Good Walls: Urban Development and Trade Networks in Late Antique South Gaul
Ian Wood – Introduction
Lisa Kaaren Bailey – “The Innocence of the Dead Crowned You, the Glory of the Triumphant Crowned Me”: The Strange Rivalry between Bethlehem and Lyon in Eusebius Gallicanus Sermon 11
Michael Burrows – Tours vs. Bourges: The Secular and Ecclesiastical Discourse of Inter-City Relationships in the Accounts of Gregory of Tours
Ann Christys – Did All Roads Lead to Córdoba under the Umayyads?
Dimitris J. Kyrtatas – Religious Conflict in Roman Nicomedia
Javier Martínez Jiménez – Reccopolitani and Other Town Dwellers in the Southern Meseta during the Visigothic Period of State Formation
Pedro Mateos Cruz – Augusta Emerita in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of Its Urban Layout During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries CE
Michael Mulryan – The So-Called “Oriental Quarter” of Ostia: Regions III.XVI–VII, a Neighborhood in Late Antiquity
Isabel Sánchez Ramos – Looking through Landscapes: Ideology and Power in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo
Mark Lewis Tizzoni – Locating Carthage in the Vandal Era
Douglas Underwood – Good Neighbors and Good Walls: Urban Development and Trade Networks in Late Antique South Gaul