Jacobs, II, Paul W.

The Lives of a Roman Neighborhood

Tracing the Imprint of the Past, from 500 Bce to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is for readers interested in Rome's history, urban development, and environmental studies. It explores a Rome neighbourhood's development over 2500 years, how new development is drawn to a space notwithstanding environmental challenges, and how the memory and imprint of the earlier neighbourhood persists through later alterations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 170mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781316512630
• ISBN-10: 1316512630
• Artikelnr.: 63938718

Autorenporträt

Paul Jacobs, II, an independent scholar, has spent extensive time in Rome and focuses on Rome's topographical development. He is the co-author of Campus Martius - The Field of Mars in the Life of Ancient Rome (2014). His article on Cola di Rienzo, Renaissance Studies (2018), is set in the Sant'Angelo rione, the subject of this study.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Remembering the meadowlands: The Prata Flaminia and the circus of Gaius Flaminius, circa 500
217 BCE; 2. Setting out line: The republican circus, 217
44 BCE; 3. Fit for an emperor: Creating the Augustan circus, 44 BCE
14 CE; 4. The long show ends: The imperial circus through the gothic war, 14
554 CE; 5. Repurposing space in the early medieval era, 554
circa 1000; 6. Filling in the blanks: Developing Sant'Angelo Rione, circa 1000
1347; 7. Growth and decline along a commercial corridor, 1347
1555; 8. Two Rioni in one:Sant'Angelo and its ghetto, 1555
1800; 9. Old walls razed, new walls built: Urban renewal on the Tiber's edge, 1800
1908; 10. Travertine and Stolpersteine: Remembering the past at different levels, 1908
present.