Hendrik Dey (City University of New York Hunter College)

The Making of Medieval Rome

A New Profile of the City, 400 - 1420

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 226mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1546g
• ISBN-13: 9781108838535
• ISBN-10: 1108838537
• Artikelnr.: 61269055

Autorenporträt

Hendrik Dey has spent years living and teaching in Rome, where he also held a two-year Rome Prize at the American Academy. His books include The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD 271-855 (2011), and The Afterlife of the Roman City: Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The eternal city on the brink: Rome in 400 AD
2. 401-552: from imperial metropolis to provincial town
3. 552-705: Byzantine Rome
4. 705-882: a papal 'republic of the Romans'
5. 882-1046: the long twilight of the early middle ages
6. 1046-1230: church reformed, senate reborn, Rome renascent
7. 1230-1420: Barons, babylonian captivity, and black death. The apogee and agony of late medieval Rome.