The End of the Pagan City: Religion, Economy, and Urbanism in Late Antique North Africa

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1. Paganism and Christianity in Late Antique North Africa
	1. Introduction
	2. What Paganism and What Christianity?
	3. Sacred and Secular: Augustine and his Contemporaries
	4. From Paganism to Christianity: Donatism, the Circumcelliones
	5. Vandal and Byzantine Conquests: An Overview
	6. Urban Monumentality and Religiosity in Late Antique North Africa: A Summary
	7. The End of Paganism in Late Antique North Africa
2. The Fate of Pagan Religious Architecture: Was there a Conversion from the Temple to the Church?
	1. Introduction
	2. The End of Temple Maintenance and Restoration
	3. Emperors, Legislation, and the Fate of Temples
	4. Cult Prohibition: The Archaeological Evidence of Private Cults
	5. Post-Closure Temple Maintenance: The Legislation
	6. The Fate of Temples: Use and Reuse of Buildings in North Africa
	7. The End of Temples: An Ideological Event?
3. Pagan Continuity and Christian Attitudes: When did Paganism End?
	1. Introduction
	2. Sacerdotes and Flamines in Late Antique North Africa
	3. Fifth-Century Evidence: The Vandal Period
	4. Calendars and Games: The Case of Late Antique North Africa
	5. The Buildings of the Imperial Cult
	6. The Last Official Dedication of Imperial Statues: New Urban Settings and Display
	7. Conclusions
4. The Fate of Statues: Legacy of the Past or Economic Casualties?
	1. Introduction
	2. Evidence from Legislation and Written Sources
	3. Statues and the Classical Tradition
	4. Statues and Markets
	5. Destruction and Deposition of Statues
	6. Statues and Textual Evidence from Africa
	7. Damnatio memoriae and Destruction
	8. Statues Buried, or Left in Pits, Wells, Cisterns, and Rooms of Derelict Buildings
	9. Statues in Excavated Public Buildings
	10. Carthage and the Case of the Antonine Baths—the Borj Jedid Area
	11. The Temple of Apollo at Bulla Regia: Museum or Warehouse?
	12. Thugga/Dougga and the Temple of Saturn: A Case Study
	13. Between Pagans and Christians: Statues and Symbols
5. Spolia in Churches: Recycling in Late Antique Building Activity
	1. Introduction
	2. Spolia: Economy, Style, and Symbolism
	3. Style and Marbles in Late Antique North Africa
	4. Trade to Late Antique North Africa
	5. Imported Marbles in Context: The Case of Carthage
	6. Urban Workshops
	7. Early Byzantine Architecture and its Language: The North African Perspective
	8. Marble Decoration in Byzantine Sabratha
	9. Basilica I in Sabratha: Church Decorations
	10. Spolia and Trade: Between Secular Life and Economy
6. Secular Life in Late Antique North Africa
	1. Introduction
	2. What Pagans and What Christians?
	3. Statues and Supply
	4. Marbles and Spolia: Symbols or Required Objects?
	5. Secular Life in Late Antique North Africa
Appendices
	Appendix 1
		Inscriptions attesting to flamines and sacerdotales recorded in North Africa from the fourth century
	Appendix 2
		1. Basilica I in the forum of Sabratha
		2. Spolia and reuse in Basilica I at Sabratha
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