Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy

Demonstrates how food-growing gardens in early medieval cities transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.

List of contents

List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Terms and Measurements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Patterns and changes; 3. The shape of the phenomenon; 4. Alliances and exchanges; 5. Values and ideals; 6. Conspicuous cultivation; 7. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Caroline Goodson is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge where her research interrogates material remains alongside archival and literary records to evaluate the rise of early medieval polities in the Western Mediterranean. She was awarded the Rome Prize in 2002-3 for her doctoral research, and subsequently has been funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Foundation. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2010, her previous publications include The Rome of Pope Paschal I (817-824): Papal Power, Urban renovation, Church Rebuilding and Relic Translation (Cambridge, 2010).

Summary

Concentrating on a period of social, economic, and political change in the Italian peninsula, Caroline Goodson demonstrates the centrality of food-growing gardens to the cultural lives and economic realities of early medieval cities, and shows how urban gardening transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Goodson, Caroline (University of Cambridge) Goodson, Goodson Caroline
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781108733458
• ISBN: 978-1-108-73345-8
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, GARDENING / Essays & Narratives, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, Gardens (descriptions, history etc), European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE