The Aurelian wall and the refashioning of Imperial Rome, A.D. 271-855 / Hendrik W. Dey.
2011
DG67 .D49 2011eb
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Title
The Aurelian wall and the refashioning of Imperial Rome, A.D. 271-855 / Hendrik W. Dey.
Author
ISBN
9781139077439 (electronic bk.)
1139077430 (electronic bk.)
9780511974397
0511974396
9780521763653
0521763657
1107217121
9781107217126
1139062972
9781139062978
9786613112996
6613112992
1139075179
9781139075176
1139069403
9781139069403
1139079727
9781139079723
1139081993
9781139081993
1139077430 (electronic bk.)
9780511974397
0511974396
9780521763653
0521763657
1107217121
9781107217126
1139062972
9781139062978
9786613112996
6613112992
1139075179
9781139075176
1139069403
9781139069403
1139079727
9781139079723
1139081993
9781139081993
Imprint
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xv, 360 pages) : illustrations, maps
Other Standard Identifiers
40019477515
Call Number
DG67 .D49 2011eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)727948430
Summary
"This book explores the relationship between the city of Rome and the Aurelian wall during the six centuries following its construction in the 270s AD, a period when the city changed and contracted almost beyond recognition, as it evolved from imperial capital into the spiritual center of Western Christendom. The wall became the single most prominent feature in the urban landscape, a dominating presence which came bodily to incarnate the political, legal, administrative, and religious boundaries of urbs Roma, even as it reshaped both the physical contours of the city as a whole and the mental geographies of 'Rome' that prevailed at home and throughout the known world. With the passage of time, the circuit took on a life of its own as the embodiment of Rome's past greatness, a cultural and architectural legacy that dwarfed the quotidian realities of the post-imperial city as much as it shaped them"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Toward an architectural history of the Aurelian wall, from its beginnings through the ninth century
Planning, building, rebuilding, and maintenance : the logistical dynamics of a (nearly) interminable project
Motives, meaning, and context : the Aurelian wall and the late Roman state
The city, the suburbs, and the wall : the rise of a topographical institution
Sacred geography, interrupted
The wall and the "Republic of St. Peter"
Appendix A: Numerical data
Appendix B: The fourth century revisited : the problem of Maxentius
Appendix C: The post-Honorian additions to the Porta Appia and other fifth- and sixth-century construction
Appendix D: The Aurelian wall and the refashioning of the western tip of the Campus Martius
Appendix E: The Pons Agrippae and the Pons Aureli : a tale of two bridges.
Planning, building, rebuilding, and maintenance : the logistical dynamics of a (nearly) interminable project
Motives, meaning, and context : the Aurelian wall and the late Roman state
The city, the suburbs, and the wall : the rise of a topographical institution
Sacred geography, interrupted
The wall and the "Republic of St. Peter"
Appendix A: Numerical data
Appendix B: The fourth century revisited : the problem of Maxentius
Appendix C: The post-Honorian additions to the Porta Appia and other fifth- and sixth-century construction
Appendix D: The Aurelian wall and the refashioning of the western tip of the Campus Martius
Appendix E: The Pons Agrippae and the Pons Aureli : a tale of two bridges.
Source of Description
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Available in Other Form
Print version: Dey, Hendrik W., 1976- Aurelian wall and the refashioning of Imperial Rome, A.D. 271-855. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011
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