Rebuilding Histories in the Roman World

ANN MARIE YASIN is Associate Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2009) and has received fellowships from the American Academy in Rome, Dumbarton Oaks, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

• Introduction: architectural temporalities; Part I. Patrons and Communities: Present, Pasts, and Futures: 1. Virtues of restoration; 2. Celebration time: calendrical manipulation and participatory architecture; 3. Futures protected? Divine pledges, architectural safeguards, and material fragility; Part II. Architectural Autobiographies: (Re)Building Inscriptions Writing the Shape of Time: 4. Restorations' assembled records: accumulative epigraphy and benefaction across time; 5. Infrastructure and the temporalities of roman roads; 6. The old and/in the new: commemorating rebuilding and evoking ruins past; Part III. 'Unmarked' Changes: Material and Spatial Temporalities: 7. Ornament revised: material transformation and temporal orientations; 8. Un-monumental histories: placemaking and somatic time in adapted buildings; Conclusion: the times of Roman and late roman rebuilding.