
Rome and The Guidebook Tradition
From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
De Gruyter (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2019
Book
Hardback
VIII, 357 pages
978-3-11-061044-4 (ISBN)
Description
To this day, no comprehensive academic study of the development of guidebooks to Rome over time has been performed. This book treats the history of guidebooks to Rome from the Middle Ages up to the early twentieth century. It is based on the results of the interdisciplinary research project
Topos and Topography
, led by Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota. From the case studies performed within the project, it becomes evident that the guidebook as a phenomenon was formed in Rome during the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The elements and rhetorical strategies of guidebooks over time have shown to be surprisingly uniform, with three important points of development: a turn towards a more user-friendly structure from the seventeenth century and onward; the so-called 'Baedeker effect' in the mid-nineteenth century; and the introduction of a personalized guiding voice in the first half of the twentieth century. Thus, the 'guidebook tradition' is an unusually consistent literary oeuvre, which also forms a warranty for the authority of every new guidebook. In this respect, the guidebook tradition is intimately associated with the city of Rome, with which it shares a constantly renovating yet eternally fixed nature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
10 s/w Abbildungen, 64 farbige Abbildungen
10 b/w and 64 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
803 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-061044-4 (9783110610444)
Schweitzer Classification
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Anna Blennow | Stefano Fogelberg Rota
Rome and The Guidebook Tradition
From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
E-Book
04/2019
1st Edition
De Gruyter
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Anna Blennow | Stefano Fogelberg Rota
Rome and The Guidebook Tradition
From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century
E-Book
04/2019
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€0.00
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Persons
A. Blennow
, University of Gothenburg and
S. Fogelberg Rota
, UmeƄ University, Sweden.