Medieval Rome - Stability and Crisis of a City, 900-1150

this book is a model for the socio-political history of a premodern city, written in a direct and enjoyable manner. Informationen zum Autor Chris Wickham taught at Birmingham for nearly thirty years before coming to Oxford as Chichele Professor in 2005. He has travelled to Rome for short and long research visits over a hundred times. Klappentext A new history of medieval Rome, told not from the standpoint of the Church, but of the Romans themselves. This volume examines Rome's cultural, political, religious, legal, and social identity to discover how the city functioned between 900 and 1150. Zusammenfassung A new history of medieval Rome, told not from the standpoint of the Church, but of the Romans themselves. This volume examines Rome's cultural, political, religious, legal, and social identity to discover how the city functioned between 900 and 1150. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Grand Narratives; 2 The Countryside and the City; 3 The Urban Economy; 4 Urban Aristocracies; 5 Medium elites and Church Clienteles: The Society of Rome's Regions in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries; 6 The Geography of Ritual and Identity; 7 The Crisis, 1050-1150; Bibliography

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• Authors: Chris Wickham, Chris (Chichele Professor of Medieval History Wickham, Wickham Chris
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.2014
• EAN: 9780199684960
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968496-0
• No. of pages: 536
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 243 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History; Oxford Studies in Medieval Eur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book; European History, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, History of Religion, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Social and cultural history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval