The Making of Medieval Rome

The Making of Medieval Rome
Title The Making of Medieval Rome PDF eBook
Author Hendrik Dey
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 956
Release 2021-10-14
Genre Art
ISBN 1108985696

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Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving remains and, most importantly, with the results of the past half-century's worth of medieval archaeology in the city, The Making of Medieval Rome is the first in-depth profile of Rome's transformation over a millennium to appear in any language in over forty years. Though the main focus rests on Rome's urban trajectory in topographical, architectural, and archaeological terms, Hendrik folds aspects of ecclesiastical, political, social, military, economic, and intellectual history into the narrative in order to illustrate how and why the cityscape evolved as it did during the thousand years between the end of the Roman Empire and the start of the Renaissance. A wide-ranging synthesis of decades' worth of specialized research and remarkable archaeological discoveries, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in how and why the ancient imperial capital transformed into the spiritual heart of Western Christendom.

The Making of Medieval Rome

The Making of Medieval Rome
Title The Making of Medieval Rome PDF eBook
Author Hendrik W. Dey
Publisher
Pages
Release 2021
Genre Rome (Italy)
ISBN 9781108975162

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"This book purports to be the fullest treatment in any language of Rome's urban evolution across the full medieval millennium to appear in over forty years, since the publication, in 1980, of Richard Krautheimer's justly renowned Rome, Profile of a City 312 - 1308. As such, it has a staggering amount of ground to cover, and needs to inform and (ideally) please a dauntingly wide range of prospective readers. It is a robust testament to the reach and quality of Krautheimer's book that it remains, even today, a standard resource for practicing scholars, for students, and-one assumes-for that legendary and much sought-after beast in academic publishing circles, the "educated general reader.""--

The Making of Medieval Rome

The Making of Medieval Rome
Title The Making of Medieval Rome PDF eBook
Author Hendrik W. Dey
Publisher
Pages
Release 2021
Genre Rome (Italy)
ISBN 9781108971560

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"This book purports to be the fullest treatment in any language of Rome's urban evolution across the full medieval millennium to appear in over forty years, since the publication, in 1980, of Richard Krautheimer's justly renowned Rome, Profile of a City 312 - 1308. As such, it has a staggering amount of ground to cover, and needs to inform and (ideally) please a dauntingly wide range of prospective readers. It is a robust testament to the reach and quality of Krautheimer's book that it remains, even today, a standard resource for practicing scholars, for students, and-one assumes-for that legendary and much sought-after beast in academic publishing circles, the "educated general reader.""--

Medieval Rome

Medieval Rome
Title Medieval Rome PDF eBook
Author Chris Wickham
Publisher
Pages 530
Release 2015
Genre Civilization, Medieval
ISBN 0199684960

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Medieval Rome analyses the history of the city of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major change in the city. This volume doesn't merely seek to tell the story of the city from the traditional Church standpoint; instead, it engages in studies of the city's processions, material culture,legal transformations, and sense of the past, seeking to unravel the complexities of Roman cultural identity, including its urban economy, social history as seen across the different strata of society, and the articulation between the city's regions.This new approach serves to underpin a major reinterpretation of Rome's political history in the era of the "reform papacy", one of the greatest crises in Rome's history, which had a resonance across the entire continent. Medieval Rome is the most systematic analysis ever made of two and a halfcenturies of Rome's history, one which saw centuries of stability undermined by external crisis and the long period of reconstruction which followed.

Visions of Sainthood in Medieval Rome

Visions of Sainthood in Medieval Rome
Title Visions of Sainthood in Medieval Rome PDF eBook
Author Lezlie S. Knox
Publisher University of Notre Dame Pess
Pages 257
Release 2017-10-30
Genre History
ISBN 026810204X

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Margherita Colonna (1255–1280) was born into one of the great baronial families that dominated Rome politically and culturally in the thirteenth century. After the death of her father and mother, Margherita was raised by her brothers, including Cardinal Giacomo Colonna. The two extant contemporary accounts of her short life offer a daring model of mystical lay piety forged in imitation of St. Francis but worked out in the vibrant world of medieval Rome. In Visions of Sainthood in Medieval Rome, Larry F. Field, Lezlie S. Knox, and Sean L. Field present the first English translations of Margherita Colonna’s two “lives” and a dossier of associated texts, along with thoroughly researched contextualization and scholarly examination. The first of the two lives was written by a layman, the Roman Senator Giovanni Colonna, one of Margherita Colonna's brothers. The second was written by a woman named Stefania, who had been a close follower of Margherita Colonna and assumed leadership of her Franciscan community after Margherita's death. These intriguing texts open up new perspectives on numerous historical questions. How did authorial gender and status influence hagiographic perspective? How fluid was the nature of female Franciscan identity during the era in which the papacy was creating the Order of St. Clare? What were the experiences and influences of female visionaries? And what was the process of saint-making at the heart of an aristocratic Roman family? These texts add rich new texture to our overall picture of medieval visionary culture and will interest students and scholars of medieval and renaissance history, literature, religion, and women's studies.

Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome

Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome
Title Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome PDF eBook
Author Gregor Kalas
Publisher Amsterdam University Press
Pages 344
Release 2021-05-27
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9048541492

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A narrative of decline punctuated by periods of renewal has long structured perceptions of Rome's late antique and medieval history. In their probing contributions to this volume, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars provides alternative approaches to understanding the period. Addressing developments in governance, ceremony, literature, art, music, clerical education and the city's very sense of its own identity, the essays examine how a variety of actors, from poets to popes, addressed the intermittent crises and shifting dynamics of these centuries with creative solutions that bolstered the city's resilience. Without denying that the past (both pre-Christian and Christian) always remained a powerful touchstone, the studies in this volume offer rich new insights into the myriad ways that Rome and Romans, between the fifth and the eleventh centuries, creatively assimilated the past in order to shape the future.

The Afterlife of the Roman City

The Afterlife of the Roman City
Title The Afterlife of the Roman City PDF eBook
Author Hendrik W. Dey
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 317
Release 2014-11-17
Genre Architecture
ISBN 1107069181

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This book offers a new perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.