Urban developments in late antique and Medieval Rome : revising the narrative of renewal / edited by Gregor Kalas and Ann van Dijk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalas, Gregor, editor.

Dijk, Ann Karin van, 1966- editor.

Series:

Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Italy--Rome--History--To 1500.

City planning.

Rome (Italy)--History--476-1420.

Rome (Italy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

5. (Re-)Founding Christian Rome: The Honorian Project of the Early Seventh Century

Dennis Trout

6. After Antiquity: Renewing the Past or Celebrating the Present? Early Medieval Apse Mosaics in Rome

Erik Thuno

7. The Re-Invention of Rome in the Early Middle Ages

John Osborne

8. Rewriting the Renouveau

Dale Kinney

9. Renewal, Heritage, and Exchange in Eleventh-Century Roman Chant Traditions

Luisa Nardini

10. Reforming Readers, Reforming Texts: The Making of Discursive Community in Gregorian Rome

William North

Manuscripts Cited

Index

Cover

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction: Revising the Narrative of Renewal for Late Antique and Medieval Rome

Gregor Kalas and Ann van Dijk

2. Rome at War: The Effects of Crisis on Church and Community in Late Antiquity

Kristina Sessa

3. Portraits of Poets and the Lecture Halls in the Forum of Trajan: Masking Cultural Tensions in Late Antique Rome

Gregor Kalas

4. Rolling Out the Red Carpet, Roman-Style: The Arrival at Rome From Constantine to Charlemagne

Jacob Latham

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

1-003-70887-0

90-485-4149-2

9781003708872

OCLC:

1258683257