The city wall of Imperial Rome / Ian A. Richmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richmond, I. A. (Ian Archibald), 1902-1965, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City walls--Rome--History.

City walls.

Gates--Rome--History.

Gates.

Wall of Aurelian (Rome, Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Yardley, Pennsylvania : Westholme Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

The Essential Study of the Largest Monument Still to Be Seen in Rome The City Wall of Imperial Rome: An Account of Its Architectural Development from Aurelian to Narses by Sir Ian A.Richmond was first published in 1930 and reprinted in facsimile in 1971.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Plates

List of Figures in the Text

Glossary

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: The Aim of This Book and Previous Studies

Part I. General Features and Ancient Descriptions

I. The Wall in Its Present State

1. The Relation of the Wall to Earlier Boundaries and Defences of the City and Its Present Character

2. The Date of the Wall as Shown by Incorporated Structures

(a) The Land Wall

(b) The Transtiberine Wall

(c) The River Wall

(d) Hadrian's Mausoleum

(e) Conclusions

II. Ancient Literary Sources, Including Two Renaissance Studies

1. Classical Literature

(a) The Building of the Wall

(b) Maxentius and the Wall

(c) The Honorian Restoration

(d) An Edict of Theodosius II and Valentinian III

(e) Theoderic's Repairs

(f) Belisarius Prepares for the Seige of Witigis

(g) The Destruction of the Wall by Totila, and Further Repairs by Belisarius

2. Medieval Descriptions of the Wall

(a) The Einsiedeln List

(b) Chronicon Benedicti

(c) The Cemetery Lists

(d) Descriptio Plenaria

(e) Graphia Aureae Urbis Romae

(f) De Mirabilibus Urbis Romae

(g) Anonymus Magliabecchianus

3. Two Renaissance Studies

(a) Poggio Bracciolini

(b) Nicholas Audebert

Part II. The Architectural Evolution of the Wall

I. The Construction of the Wall

1. The First-period Wall, Type A

2. The First-period Wall, Type B

3. The First-period Wall, Type C

4. The Scope and Value of the First-period Wall

5. The Second-period Wall, Type A

6. The Second-period Wall, Type B

7. The Second-period Wall, Type C

8. The Second-period Wall, Type D

9. The Value of the Reconstructed Wall

II. The Towers and Their Evolution

1. The First-period Towers

2. The Second-period Towers.

III. Necessaria

IV. Repairs to the Wall and Towers

Part III. The Gates

I. Introductory

II. Existing Gates

1. Porta Nomentana

2. Porta Latina

3. Porta Ostiensis East

4. Porta Appia

(a) Early Constructions and the East Tower

(b) The West Tower

(c) The Curtain

(d) The Vantage-court

5. Porta Metrobia

6. Porta Asinaria

(a) The First Gate

(b) The Second Gate

7. Porta Pinciana

8. Porta Tiburtina

9. La Porta Chiusa

III. Demolished Gates

1. Porta Salaria

2. Porta Flaminia

3. Porta Portuensis

4. Porta Praenestina-Labicana

5. Porta Ardeatina (? Laurentina)

6. Porta Ostiensis West

7. Porta Aurelia-Pancraziana

8. Porta Septimiana

9. Porta Aurelia-Sancti Petri

IV. Existing Posterns

1. Postern of Via Nomentana

2. Postern of Castra Praetoria

3. Postern of the Licinian Gardens

4. Postern of Vigna Casali

5. Wicket of Giardino Cardelli

6. Doorway of Vigna Casali

V. Demolished Posterns

Part IV. Historical Interpretation of the Remains

I. Aurelian's Wall and Gates

II. From Aurelian to Honorius

III. The Restoration of Honorius

IV. From Honorius to Narses

1. Period IV

2. Period V, Theoderic's Restoration

3. Period VI, Belisarius in 536

4. Period VII, 537 to 546

5. Period VIII, Belisarius in 547

Appendix I. Text of the Einsiedeln List

Appendix II. Index to Towers and Curtains of the Wall

Index of Ancient Literature, Artists, and Modern Authorities

General Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-59416-574-2

OCLC:

1197564168