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0671-2217-01 | "wall and Tower" ? Military Architecture in the Classical World | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The course will be devoted to the study of martial architecture in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine world. A focus will be given to the typology of fortifications: walls, towers, gates and their components of the urban space, alongside military architecture and spaces, such as camps, marching camps and fortifications, such as Hadrian Wall. We will further elaborate on the counter measures employed against the fortifications and the mechanisms of change the fortifications underwent.