The Aurelian wall and the refashioning of imperial Rome, AD 271-855 / Hendrik W. Dey.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Dey, Hendrik W., 1976-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xv, 360 p. :; ill.

"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 Weste...

Table of Contents

• 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.