Klein Richard Klein

Rock of Arles (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Founded 2,600 years ago on a massive limestone eminence, the city of Arles has been the home of Roman emperors and captured slaves, pagan temples and Christian spires, bloody revolutionaries and powerful papists. In The Rock of Arles Richard Klein relays the history of the city as told to him by the Rock, its genius loci, which infallibly remembers every moment of its existence, from the Roman conquest of Gaul to the fall of feudal aristocracy, from the domination of the Catholic Church to the present French representative democracy. The Rock's contrarian and dissident history resurrects the memory of three of the city's most radical yet largely forgotten revolutionary minds: Hellenistic philosopher Favorinus, medieval Hebrew poet Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, and subversive aristocrat Pierre-Antoine Antonelle. For the Rock, each figure represents a freethinking current running through Arlesian history which countered the reactionary, bigoted forces that governed the city for fifteen centuries. Erudite, witty, and opinionated, the Rock tells the story of Arles in order to sketch the broader canvas of European history while invoking the city's possible future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478027850
• Artikelnr.: 72402410

Autorenporträt

Richard Klein

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Note  ix
Prologue  xi
I. Urbs Dupleix  1
II. Quid Obstat Fit in Via  19
III. Colonia Julia Paterna Arelate  31
IV. Venus Genetrix  45
V. Urbs Genesii  54
VI. Peri Tuché  70
VII. Felix Carcar  86
VIII. A Worthy Woman  104
IX. A Republic of Equals  121
Acknowledgments  145
Notes  149
Bibliography  153