Rome in Late Antiquity : : Everyday Life and Urban Change, AD 312-609 / / Bertrand Lançon.
This is a history of life in ancient Rome from the third to the seventh centuries AD. At the beginning of the period Rome was the centre of civilisation, by far the greatest city in the world, whose vast revenues supplied its million people with lavish provisions of food and wine and at least one hu...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Foreword to the English translation
- Introduction: The city between antiquity and the Middle Ages Mark Humphries
- Contributor
- I. Maiestas Quirini: The majesty of the Quirinal
- 1. Looking at the city
- 2. Transforming the city's image
- 3. The phoenix city: War and ivasion in the fifth and sixth centuries
- 4. Urban administration
- II. Plebs patresque: Plebeians and patricians
- 5. The nobility, elite of the human race'
- 6. Tradesmen and plebs
- III. Religio: Religion and religiosity
- 7. Ancestral cults
- 8. The expansion of Christianity
- IV. Saeculum: Worldly
- 9. Life and death: Material civilisation and mental attitudes
- 10. Transforming the calendar
- 11. Festivals and entertainments
- 12. Education and culture
- 13. The influence of Christian Rome
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chronology
- Guide to further reading Mark Humphries
- Index