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Book SynopsisThis illustrated book is a coherently conceived collection of interdisciplinary essays by distinguished authors on the city of Rome and its contacts with western Christendom in the early Middle Ages (c. 500-1000 AD). The first part integrates historical, archaeological, numismatic and art historical approaches to studying the transition of the city of Rome from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and offers groundbreaking new analyses of selected sites and problems. Attention is given to the economic, social, religious and cultural history of the city. In the second part of the volume historical, archaeological, liturgical and palaeographical approaches address Rome's contacts and influence in Latin Christendom in this period, with particular regard to Rome's place within Italian politics and its cultural influence in Carolingian Francia and Anglo-Saxon England.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgements … ix List of Illustrations … xi List of Abbreviations … xiii Donald A. Bullough ... xvii Julia M.H. Smith A Bibliography of the Historical Writings of Donald A. Bullough … xxi Alice Harting-Corrêa Introduction: Rome and Romanitas: Aspects of Transition ... 1 Frances Andrews PART ONE EARLY MEDIEVAL ROME Rome in Transition: Economic and Political Change in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries … 21 Federico Marazzi Continuity and Discontinuity of a Seat of Power: the Palatine Hill from the Fifth to the Tenth Century ... 43 Andrea Augenti Paradoxes and Possibilities in the Sources for Roman Society in the Early Middle Ages ... 55 Thomas F.X. Noble Monetary Circulation in Byzantine and Carolingian Rome: a Reconsideration in the Light of Recent Archaeological Data ... 85 Alessia Rovelli Residential Building in Early Medieval Rome ... 101 Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani Constantinople on the Tiber: the Byzantines in Rome and the Iconography of their Images ... 113 Per Jonas Nordhagen The Reliquary Altar of S. Maria del Priorato in Rome … 135 Adriano Peroni and Stefano Riccioni The Romans according to their malign custom: Rome in Italy in the Late Ninth and Tenth Centuries ... 151 Chris Wickham PART TWO ROME AND THE CHRISTIAN WEST The Commemoration of the Dead in the Early Middle Ages 169 Giles Constable The Papacy, Rome and the Wider World in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries … 197 Paolo Delogu Canterbury, Rome and the Construction of English Identity … 221 Nicholas Brooks In Search of Saints: The English Church and the Cult of Roman Apostles and Martyrs in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries ... 247 Alan Thacker Charlemagne and Rome ... 279 Rudolf Schieffer “Roman Books” Reconsidered: the Theology of Carolingian Display Script ... 297 David Ganz Old Saints, New Cults: Roman Relics in Carolingian Francia ... 317 Appendix: Relic Translations from Rome to Francia, 750–900 ... 335 Julia M.H. Smith Roman Liturgy and Frankish Allegory ... 341 Edition of Fragments of Amalarius ... 355 Herbert Schneider Bibliography ... 379 Index ... 415
