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Social Change and the Idea of Urbanity Between Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

The paper is an attempt at a multidisciplinary approach to the idea of the town in the period between Late Antiquity and Early middle ages. The town is perceived as a social space, defined by social dynamics, which is reflected in the urbanistic structure. The authors try to critically re-consider the accepted ideas such as "de-urbanization", "ruralization", "decline of urban culture", as well as the concepts of "continuity" and "discontinuity" in Late Antique Early medieval urbanism.

Late Antiquity; Early middle Ages; society; urbanity; de-urbanization; ruralization; continuity; discontinuity

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