Meanings
- Having a peristyle.
Both the inns and the Romano-British houses seem to have been derived from the same source—the peristyled house of the Orient; […]
1911, John Ward, “Houses of the Ordinary or ‘Corridor’ Type”, in Romano-British Buildings and Earthworks […] (J[ohn] Charles Cox, editor, The Antiquary’s Books), London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. […], page 1712 more examples
The rooms are grouped around a peristyled courtyard with the main reception rooms off the courtyard to the north, though the plan is less symmetrical and more obscured by later rebuilding.
1992, Ross Burns, “Apamea”, in Monuments of Syria: An Historical Guide, London: I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, →ISBN, page 49, column 2Would the position of women in the assembly have been any different whether it took place in a spacious and luxurious house, a more modest peristyled house, or a rented room in the corner of an insula?
1998, Carolyn Osiek, “Women in House Churches”, in Julian V[ictor] Hills et al., editors, Common Life in the Early Church: Essays Honoring Graydon F. Snyder, Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, →ISBN, part four (Common Life in the Letters and Other Writings), page 309
Origin
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