Studi di epigrafia tardoantica e medievale in Campania. Volume I. Secoli IV-VII

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The volume, the first of a series of three dedicated to the late antique and medieval epigraphy of Campania, collects historical-archaeological themes and reflections that draw inspiration and confirmation from the inscribed artefacts.
The essays, organized according to a structure that lends itself to being respected even for the following centuries, have as their guiding thread the local epigraphic research as a tool for a broader historical knowledge, which brings the single document within its own space-time coordinates and favors , in perspective, a comparison with other contexts, in particular the civitates which were the seat of the main political and religious organizations, producers and users of texts destined to 'affect' time and to 'last' it as an intentionally imperishable sign of civilization.
The intention of tracing the epigraphic production above all to the daily, private and collective experience, has determined the choice to analyze almost exclusively the attestations of a funerary nature, which in fact coincide with most of the late antique heritage and represent, in an only apparent paradox, authentic pages of life.