Urban landscapes in Hispania during Late Antiquity

Abstract

In these last decades there had been some favorable conditions for the archaeological research reach more and better knowledge of those mainland cities with a historical continuity to contemporary times, wich reached the Espiscopal sees status during the first centuries of Christianity. This enabled us to estimate the value of the new urban elites, and especially the reinforcement of the bishop and the elites as the highest local authorities in the setting–up a new urban architectural models, mainly sacred and funerary, as well as through the organization of representation spaces. This work must be understood as a general reflection of the current state of research about the situation of the Iberian Peninsula cities in the historical period under consideration.