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Informationen zum Autor Paul Jacobs, II, an independent scholar, has spent extensive time in Rome and focuses on Rome's topographical development. He is the co-author of Campus Martius – The Field of Mars in the Life of Ancient Rome (2014). His article on Cola di Rienzo, Renaissance Studies (2018), is set in the Sant'Angelo rione, the subject of this study. Klappentext In this book, Paul Jacobs traces the history of a neighborhood situated in the heart of Rome over twenty-five centuries. Here, he considers how topography and location influenced its long urban development. During antiquity, the forty-plus acre, flood-prone site on the Tiber's edge was transformed from a meadow near a crossroads into the imperial Circus Flaminius, with its temples, colonnades, and a massive theater. Later, it evolved into a bustling medieval and early modern residential and commercial district known as the Sant'Angelo rione. Subsequently, the neighborhood enclosed Rome's Ghetto. Today, it features an archaeological park and tourist venues, and it is still the heart of Rome's Jewish community. Jacobs' study explores the impact of physical alterations on the memory of lost topographical features. He also posits how earlier development may be imprinted upon the landscape, or preserved to influence future changes. Zusammenfassung This book is for readers interested in Rome's history, urban development, and environmental studies. It explores a Rome neighbourhood's development over 2500 years, how new development is drawn to a space notwithstanding environmental challenges, and how the memory and imprint of the earlier neighbourhood persists through later alterations. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Remembering the meadowlands: The Prata Flaminia and the circus of Gaius Flaminius, circa 500-217 BCE; 2. Setting out line: The republican circus, 217-44 BCE; 3. Fit for an emperor: Creating the Augustan circus, 44 BCE-14 CE; 4. The long show ends: The imperial circus through the gothic war, 14-554 CE; 5. Repurposing space in the early medieval era, 554-circa 1000; 6. Filling in the blanks: Developing Sant'Angelo Rione, circa 1000-1347; 7. Growth and decline along a commercial corridor, 1347-1555; 8. Two Rioni in one:Sant'Angelo and its ghetto, 1555-1800; 9. Old walls razed, new walls built: Urban renewal on the Tiber's edge, 1800-1908; 10. Travertine and Stolpersteine: Remembering the past at different levels, 1908-present....
