A Companion to Rome (c. 400-1050)
Will be published approx. on 27. November 2025
Book
Hardback
646 pages
978-90-04-74176-8 (ISBN)
Description
Rome was the most accomplished urban form of Mediterranean antiquity. Due to its remarkable and complex urban continuity, it remained the version of a way of living that other cities aspired to achieve throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Rome between 400 and 1050 is often only studied as an idea that inspired imaginations, or for the papacy's role in cultural transmission across Europe.
This volume drastically refocuses our attention on Rome's inhabitants, their identities, relationships, institutions, experiences, agencies, and spaces, and on how these local aspects interacted with the city's universal character. It also bridges two periods of Rome that are typically separated, namely late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Through collaborative authorship of thematic essays, it integrates Anglophone discourses and approaches to Rome by scholars from Italian as well as other European traditions.
Contributors are: Margaret Andrews, Shane Bobrycki, Giulia Bordi, Francois Bougard, Samuel Cohen, Marios Costambeys, Joseph Dyer, Clemens Gantner, Caroline Goodson, Robert Heffron, Julia Hillner, Mark Humphries, Paul Johnson, Maijastina Kahlos, Paolo Liverani, Markus Loex, Carlos Machado, Federico Marazzi, Maya Maskarinec, Silvia Orlandi, Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani, Kristina Sessa, Lucrezia Spera, Francesca Romana Stasolla, Michela Stefani, Francesca Tinti, Dennis Trout, Andrea Verardi, Massimiliano Vitiello, Giorgia Vocino, Veronica West Harling, and Sarah Whitten.
This volume drastically refocuses our attention on Rome's inhabitants, their identities, relationships, institutions, experiences, agencies, and spaces, and on how these local aspects interacted with the city's universal character. It also bridges two periods of Rome that are typically separated, namely late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Through collaborative authorship of thematic essays, it integrates Anglophone discourses and approaches to Rome by scholars from Italian as well as other European traditions.
Contributors are: Margaret Andrews, Shane Bobrycki, Giulia Bordi, Francois Bougard, Samuel Cohen, Marios Costambeys, Joseph Dyer, Clemens Gantner, Caroline Goodson, Robert Heffron, Julia Hillner, Mark Humphries, Paul Johnson, Maijastina Kahlos, Paolo Liverani, Markus Loex, Carlos Machado, Federico Marazzi, Maya Maskarinec, Silvia Orlandi, Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani, Kristina Sessa, Lucrezia Spera, Francesca Romana Stasolla, Michela Stefani, Francesca Tinti, Dennis Trout, Andrea Verardi, Massimiliano Vitiello, Giorgia Vocino, Veronica West Harling, and Sarah Whitten.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Weight
1070 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-74176-8 (9789004741768)
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Caroline Goodson, Ph.D. (2004), Columbia University, is Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Cambridge and, from 2024, is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities at the American Academy in Rome. She trained as an archaeologist and works at the intersections between material evidence, field archaeology, and early medieval history, with particular interests in urbanism and environmental history. Her latest book, Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy (CUP, 2021), combined these interests.
Julia Hillner, Ph.D. (2001), University of Bonn, is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bonn and previously held a chair in medieval history at the University of Sheffield. She specializes in the social history of late antiquity, especially the family and the household, crime and punishment, gender and women, and the city of Rome. She is the author of Jedes Haus ist eine Stadt: Privatimmobilien im spaetantiken Rom (Habelt, 2004), Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity (CUP, 2015), and Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire (OUP, 2023).
Julia Hillner, Ph.D. (2001), University of Bonn, is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bonn and previously held a chair in medieval history at the University of Sheffield. She specializes in the social history of late antiquity, especially the family and the household, crime and punishment, gender and women, and the city of Rome. She is the author of Jedes Haus ist eine Stadt: Privatimmobilien im spaetantiken Rom (Habelt, 2004), Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity (CUP, 2015), and Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire (OUP, 2023).