Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, Ad 271-855

Informationen zum Autor Hendrik W. Dey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Hunter College in the City University of New York. He is co-editor with E. Fentress of Western Monasticism ante litteram: The Spaces of Monastic Observance in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (2010). Klappentext This book explores the relationship between the city of Rome and the Aurelian Wall during the six centuries following its construction. Zusammenfassung This book explores the relationship between the city of Rome and the Aurelian Wall during the six centuries following its construction in the AD 270s! a period when the city was transformed from the political capital of the largest empire in the world to the spiritual center of Western Christianity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Toward an architectural history of the Aurelian Wall, from its beginnings through the ninth century; 2. Planning, building, rebuilding, and maintenance: the logistical dynamics of a (nearly) interminable project; 3. Motives, meaning, and context: the Aurelian Wall and the late Roman state; 4. The city, the suburbs, and the wall: the rise of a topographical institution; 5. Sacred geography, interrupted; 6. The Wall and the 'Republic of St Peter'; Conclusion; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: Hendrik W. Dey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2011
• EAN: 9780521763653
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76365-3
• No. of pages: 378
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology