Líneas de investigación recientes sobre el final de las uillae 2 y de los establecimientos rurales 3 del mundo romano permiten comprobar que los grandes complejos arquitectónicos rurales, uillae señoriales y aristocráticas tienen constatada una pervivencia mayor a aquella que tradicionalmente se había considerado siendo usados y reutilizados hasta momentos muy avanzados como son los siglos VI y VII. El estudio de estas transformaciones de las uillae en el Occidente romano en el periodo tardo-romano es una empresa imposible dentro de los límites de un trabajo como este. Aquí, por Transformación y final de las villae en occidente (siglos IV-VIII): problemas y perspectivas Gisela Ripoll * Javier Arce ** RESUMEN Análisis de las transformaciones que experimentan las uillae romanas en el occidente romano durante la antigüedad tardía comparando y contrastando la evidencia literaria y arqueológica y considerando las distintas interpretaciones dadas por historiadores y arqueólogos a este fenómeno.PALABRAS CLAVE: Transformaciones. Uillae. Occidente. Antigüedad tardía.
ABSTRACTAnalysis of the transformations that Roman uillae underwent in the Roman West in the Late Roman period comparing and contrasting the literary and the archaeological evidence and thus considering the differing interpretations given by historians and archeologists to this phenomenon.
This paper examines the characteristics, evolution and decline of the late antique domus of Spanish towns, using case studies from three cities: Augusta Emerita, Complutum and Barcino. It discusses how, during the 4th c. A.D., urban town houses were dramatically renovated and lavishly redecorated according to the tastes of their owners, the urban elites. These domus, which frequently replaced the public buildings and open spaces of the Early Roman era, acquired large, apsidal and basilical spaces, in many cases decorated with mosaics and paintings. This study also charts the decline of these domestic buildings, when, from the late 5th, and in some cases the 6th c., they were re-built using poorer materials, subdivided, or re-used for agricultural or funerary purposes.
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