Urban Developments in Late Antique and Medieval Rome : : Revising the Narrative of Renewal / / ed. by Ann Dijk, Gregor Kalas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Dijk, Ann,; Kalas, Gregor,; Kinney, Dale,; Latham, Jacob,; Nardini, Luisa,; North, William,; Osborne, John,; Sessa, Kristina,; Thunø, Erik,; Trout, Dennis,
• HerausgeberIn: Dijk, Ann,; Kalas, Gregor,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Social worlds of late antiquity and the early Middle Ages ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)

A narrative of decline punctuated by periods of renewal has long structured perceptions of Rome's late antique and medieval history. In their probing contributions to this volume, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars provides alternative approaches to understanding the period. Addressing developments in governance, ceremony, literature, art, music, clerical education and the city's very sense of its own identity, the essays examine how a variety of actors, from poets to popes, addressed the intermittent crises and shifting dynamics of these centuries with creative solutions that bolstered the city's resilience. Without denying that the past (both pre-Christian and Christian) always remained a powerful touchstone, the studies in this volume offer rich new insights into the myriad ways that Rome and Romans, between the fifth and the eleventh centuries, creatively assimilated the past in order to shape the future.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Revising the Narrative of Renewal for Late Antique and Medieval Rome -- 2. Rome at War: The Effects of Crisis on Church and Community in Late Antiquity -- 3. Portraits of Poets and the Lecture Halls in the Forum of Trajan : Masking Cultural Tensions in Late Antique Rome -- 4. Rolling Out the Red Carpet, Roman-Style : The Arrival at Rome From Constantine to Charlemagne -- 5. (Re-)Founding Christian Rome: The Honorian Project of the Early Seventh Century -- 6. After Antiquity: Renewing the Past or Celebrating the Present? Early Medieval Apse Mosaics in Rome -- 7. The Re-Invention of Rome in the Early Middle Ages -- 8. Rewriting the Renouveau -- 9. Renewal, Heritage, and Exchange in Eleventh-Century Roman Chant Traditions -- 10. Reforming Readers, Reforming Texts : The Making of Discursive Community in Gregorian Rome -- Manuscripts Cited -- Index