Paul Jacobs

Lives of a Roman Neighborhood (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Paul Jacobs traces the history of a neighborhood situated in the heart of Rome over twenty-five centuries. Here, he considers how topography and location influenced its long urban development. During antiquity, the forty-plus acre, flood-prone site on the Tiber's edge was transformed from a meadow near a crossroads into the imperial Circus Flaminius, with its temples, colonnades, and a massive theater. Later, it evolved into a bustling medieval and early modern residential and commercial district known as the Sant'Angelo rione. Subsequently, the neighborhood enclosed Rome's Ghetto. Today, it features an archaeological park and tourist venues, and it is still the heart of Rome's Jewish community. Jacobs' study explores the impact of physical alterations on the memory of lost topographical features. He also posits how earlier development may be imprinted upon the landscape, or preserved to influence future changes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009080378
• Artikelnr.: 70911536

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.