Rome''s Holy Mountain - The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity

Rome's Holy Mountain is the first book to chart the history of the Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE. It investigates both the lived-in and dreamed-of realities of the hill in an era of fundamental political, religious, and social change.

List of contents

• List of Figures


• Abbreviations


• Acknowledgments


• A Note on Names


• Prologue


• Introduction


• Part I: Lived-In Realities


• 1: Climbing the Capitoline Hill


• 2: Living and Working on the Capitoline Hill


• 3: Christianity, the Capitoline Hill, and the End of Antiquity


• Part II: Dreamed-Of Realities


• 4: Experiencing and Remembering the Capitoline Hill


• 5: Learning From the Capitol's Deliverance


• 6: Learning from the Capitol's Destruction


• 7: The Capitol and the Legends of the Saints


• Epilogue: The Fall of the Ancient Capitol


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Jason Moralee is Associate Professor of History at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Summary

Rome's Holy Mountain is the first book to chart the history of the Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE. It investigates both the lived-in and dreamed-of realities of the hill in an era of fundamental political, religious, and social change.

Additional text

Moralee's book expertly and surprisingly charts the history of the hill through transformations of imperial ceremony, state religion, and strategies of social memory between the fourth and seventh centuries to show how the history of a place and the memories of its ancient functions carried forward into the early middle ages. This is an excellent, stimulating read about the history of ideas and how ideas attach to places... Moralee is to be congratulated on an exciting, insightful, and learned contribution to our understanding of how Rome's past gave rise to its future.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Moralee, Jason (Associate Professor of History Moralee, Moralee Jason
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780190492274
• ISBN: 978-0-19-049227-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity; Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity; Oxford Studies in Late Antiqui
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, RELIGION / Ancient, Archaeology, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, European history: the Romans, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Roman religion and mythology, Roman religion & mythology, Ancient religions and Mythologies