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Two Romes / Lucy Grig and Gavin Kelly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grig, Lucy.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in late antiquity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social change.
- History.
- City and town life.
- Rome (Italy)--History.
- Rome (Italy).
- Istanbul (Turkey)--History.
- Istanbul (Turkey).
- Rome--Historiography.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Historiography.
- Istanbul (Turkey)--Historiography.
- City and town life--Rome--History.
- City and town life--Turkey--Istanbul--History--To 1500.
- Social change--Rome--History.
- Social change--Turkey--Istanbul--History--To 1500.
- Rome (Italy)--Relations--Turkey--Istanbul.
- Istanbul (Turkey)--Relations--Italy--Rome.
- Turkey--Istanbul.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 465 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- Late Antiquity has unified what in the past were disparate disciplinary, chronological, and geographical areas of study. Welcoming a wide array of methodological approaches, this book series provides a venue for the finest new scholarship on the period, ranging from the later Roman empire to the Byzantine, Sasanid, early Islamic, and early Carolingian worlds. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: From Rome to Constantinople / Lucy Grig and Gavin Kelly
- Competing capitals, competing representations: late antique cityscapes in words and pictures / Lucy Grig
- Old and new Rome compared: the rise of Constantinople / Bryan Ward-Perkins
- The Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae / John Matthews
- Water and late antique Constantinople: "It would be abominable for the inhabitants of the beautiful city to be compelled to purchase water." / James Crow
- Aristocratic houses and the making of late antique Rome and Constantinople / Carlos Machado
- Valentinian III and the City of Rome (425-55): patronage, politics, power / Mark Humphries
- Playing the ritual game in Constantinople (379-457) / Peter Van Nuffelen
- Bright lights, big city: Pacatus and the Panegyrici Latini / Roger Rees
- A tale of two cities: Themistius on Rome and Constantinople / John Vanderspoel
- Claudian and Constantinople / Gavin Kelly
- Epic panegyric and political communication in the fifth-century west / Andrew Gillett
- There but not there: Constantinople in the Itinerarium Burdigalense / Benet Salway
- Virgilizing Christianity in late antique Rome / John Curran
- "Two Romes, beacons of the whold world": canonizing Constantinople / Neil McLynn
- Between petrine ideology and realpolitik: The see of Constantinople in Roman geo-ecclesiology (449-536) / Philippe Blaudeau
- From Rome to new Rome, from empire to nation-state: reopening the question of Byzantium's Roman identity / Anthony Kaldellis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0199739404
- 9780199739400
- OCLC:
- 726150146
- Publisher Number:
- 99951377197
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