Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West : : Essays in Honour of Donald A. Bullough / / edited by Julia M.H. Smith.

• Superior document: The Medieval Mediterranean ; 28
• TeilnehmendeR: Smith, Julia M.H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: The Medieval Mediterranean ; 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This illustrated book is a coherently conceived collection of interdisciplinary essays by distinguished authors on the city of Rome and its contacts with western Christendom in the early Middle Ages (c. 500-1000 AD). The first part integrates historical, archaeological, numismatic and art historical approaches to studying the transition of the city of Rome from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and offers groundbreaking new analyses of selected sites and problems. Attention is given to the economic, social, religious and cultural history of the city. In the second part of the volume historical, archaeological, liturgical and palaeographical approaches address Rome's contacts and influence in Latin Christendom in this period, with particular regard to Rome's place within Italian politics and its cultural influence in Carolingian Francia and Anglo-Saxon England.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements ... ix -- List of Illustrations ... xi -- List of Abbreviations ... xiii -- Donald A. Bullough . xvii -- Julia M.H. Smith -- A Bibliography of the Historical Writings of -- Donald A. Bullough ... xxi -- Alice Harting-Corrêa -- Introduction: Rome and Romanitas: Aspects of Transition . 1 -- Frances Andrews -- PART ONE -- EARLY MEDIEVAL ROME -- Rome in Transition: Economic and Political Change in the -- Fourth and Fifth Centuries ... 21 -- Federico Marazzi -- Continuity and Discontinuity of a Seat of Power: -- the Palatine Hill from the Fifth to the Tenth Century . 43 -- Andrea Augenti -- Paradoxes and Possibilities in the Sources for Roman -- Society in the Early Middle Ages . 55 -- Thomas F.X. Noble -- Monetary Circulation in Byzantine and Carolingian Rome: -- a Reconsideration in the Light of Recent -- Archaeological Data . 85 -- Alessia Rovelli -- Residential Building in Early Medieval Rome . 101 -- Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani -- Constantinople on the Tiber: the Byzantines in Rome -- and the Iconography of their Images . 113 -- Per Jonas Nordhagen -- The Reliquary Altar of S. Maria del Priorato in Rome ... 135 -- Adriano Peroni and Stefano Riccioni -- The Romans according to their malign custom: Rome in Italy -- in the Late Ninth and Tenth Centuries . 151 -- Chris Wickham -- PART TWO -- ROME AND THE CHRISTIAN WEST -- The Commemoration of the Dead in the Early Middle Ages 169 -- Giles Constable -- The Papacy, Rome and the Wider World in the Seventh -- and Eighth Centuries ... 197 -- Paolo Delogu -- Canterbury, Rome and the Construction of English -- Identity ... 221 -- Nicholas Brooks -- In Search of Saints: The English Church and the Cult of -- Roman Apostles and Martyrs in the Seventh and -- Eighth Centuries . 247 -- Alan Thacker -- Charlemagne and Rome . 279 -- Rudolf Schieffer -- "Roman Books" Reconsidered: the Theology of Carolingian -- Display Script . 297 -- David Ganz -- Old Saints, New Cults: Roman Relics in Carolingian -- Francia . 317 -- Appendix: Relic Translations from Rome to Francia -- 750-900 . 335 -- Julia M.H. Smith -- Roman Liturgy and Frankish Allegory . 341 -- Edition of Fragments of Amalarius . 355 -- Herbert Schneider -- Bibliography . 379 -- Index . 415.