Rome in the Eighth Century
Rome in the Eighth Century
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GBPThis book addresses a critical era in the history of the city of Rome, the eighth century CE. This was the moment when the bishops of Rome assumed political and administrative responsibility for the city's infrastructure and the physical welfare of its inhabitants, in the process creating the papal state that still survives today. John Osborne approaches this using the primary lens of 'material culture' (buildings and their decorations, both surviving and known from documents and/or archaeology), while at the same time incorporating extensive information drawn from written sources. Whereas written texts are comparatively few in number, recent decades have witnessed an explosion in new archaeological discoveries and excavations, and these provide a much fuller picture of cultural life in the city. This methodological approach of using buildings and objects as historical documents is embodied in the phrase 'history in art'.
- Adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to the history of the city of Rome in the early Middle Ages, with a primary focus on 'material culture'
- Demonstrates the persistence of Mediterranean culture in Rome even after the political ties with Constantinople had been broken
- Utilizes numerous 'case studies' of individual monuments, which are treated as historical documents
Reviews & endorsements
'The new volume is an enterprising, wide-ranging synthesis unlike anything the author has attempted before … It is a panoramic résumé of Rome's cultural and institutional evolution over the course of the eighth century, that pivotal period when the city passed from imperial to papal control, presented through the lens of 'art.'' Hendrik Dey, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
'The value of the book is in the synthesis of existing scholarship from a novel vantage point.' Caroline Goodson, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
Product details
July 2020Adobe eBook Reader
9781108871501
0 pages
52 b/w illus. 10 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Rome in 700: 'Constantinople on the Tiber'
- 2. John VII servus sanctae Mariae
- 3. Clerics, monks, and saints
- 4. 'The City of the Church'
- 5. The Chapel of Theodotus in Santa Maria Antiqua
- 6. Pope Zacharias and the Lateran Palace
- 7. Rome and the Franks
- 8. Paul I
- 9. Hadrian I dux Dei
- 10. Leo III and Charlemagne
- Afterword
