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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
- Chapter 1: Climbing the Capitoline Hill
- Chapter 2: Living and Working on the Capitoline Hill
- Chapter 3: Christianity, the Capitoline Hill, and the End of Antiquity
- Part II: Dreamed-Of Realities
- Chapter 4: Experiencing and Remembering the Capitoline Hill
- Chapter 5: Learning From the Capitol's Deliverance
- Chapter 6: Learning from the Capitol's Destruction
- Chapter 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.
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Sweeping in its diachronic breadth but tightly focused on a particular locale, Moralee's study of the Capitoline hill offers illuminating historical insights on both the micro and the macro level. The narrative weaves together a delightfully varied array of evidence and agents, encompassing saints, sinners, rulers, travelers, artists, archaeologists, historians, and treasure-seekers, and exposing how each constructed his own Capitoline. A brilliant demonstration of the value of the 'lieu de mémoire' approach, tracing shifts in meaning and memory over time."
