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Book SynopsisIda Östenberg is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Simon Malmberg is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Jonas Bjørnebye held the Stein Erik Hagen Chair in Cross Disciplinary Studies at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, University of Oslo, Norway, and is now an independent scholar.
Trade ReviewIn its fashionable focus on society’s experience of space [
The Moving City] is a product of its time. It is an enjoyable read, successfully presenting a picture ‘of a bustling, lively society, where cityscape and movements are closely interactive and entwined’. -- Cora Beth Knowles * Classics For All Reviews *
The monuments of ancient Rome, rooted in time and place, impress us with their calm stolidity. This rich collection of essays successfully reminds us that they were the backdrop to a city in permanent motion – from the stately processions of ambassadors and empresses, to the regular ebb and flow of traffic on the Tiber, and to the chaos of a rampaging crowd. -- Bryan Ward-Perkins, University of Oxford, UK
Each paper is both individually valuable and makes a significant contribution to the whole, and the volume itself, cohesive and coherent (as well as all-but-flawlessly edited), will be of interest not only to scholars working in Latin literature and Roman archaeology and social history but also potentially to informed non-specialists eager for further Blue Guide-style tidbits when visiting Rome. -- Jennifer Ferriss-Hill * The Classical Journal Online *
The volume is consistent and well organized: it is surely an important step forward in exploring a more integrated study of the cityscape in the light of the spatial and the performative turns, combining topography, architecture, epigraphy, philology, history and semiotics. It is easy to prophesy that the book will encourage many other scholars to pursue work along these lines, since it clearly shows how fruitful and productive this approach can be. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
This thoughtful, well-edited, and well-illustrated collection goes a long ways toward reanimating "the actual lived experience of movement" (176). Anyone interested in the subject of mobility, especially within the ancient Mediterranean world, will find much to think with in this volume, from its engagement with theoretical constructs to literary accounts and constructions to art historical and archaeological analyses. Like a walk around the City of Rome itself,
The Moving City provides the reader with many enlightening and often unexpected new vistas on seemingly well-trodden ground. * Classical Journal *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
I. Elite Movement 1. Power Walks: Aristocratic Escorted Movements in Republican Rome, Ida Östenberg (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 2. ‘Moving Through Town’: Foreign Dignitaries in Rome in the Middle and Late Republic, Richard Westall (Pontificia Università Gregoriana / The Catholic University of America, Italy) 3. Livia on the Move, Lovisa Brännstedt (Lund University, Sweden) 4. Fast Movement through the City: Ideals, Stereotypes and City Planning, Monica Hellström (Swedish Institute in Rome, Italy) 5. Veiled Visibility: Morality, Movement and Sacred Virginity in Late Antiquity, Sissel Undheim (University of Bergen, Norway)
II. Literary Movement 6. Rolling Thunder: Movement, Violence and Narrative in the History of the Late Roman Republic, Isak Hammar (Lund University, Sweden) 7. ‘A Shouting and Bustling on All Sides (Hor. Sat. 1.9.77–8): Everyday Justice in the Streets of Republican Rome, Anthony Corbeill (University of Kansas, USA) 8. Urban flux: Varro’s Rome-in-progress, Diana Spencer (University of Birmingham, Great Britain) 9. Augustan Literary Tours: Walking and Reading the City, Timothy M. O’Sullivan (Trinity University, USA)
III. Processional Movement 10. Moving In and Moving Out: Pagan ritual movements between Rome and its Suburbium, Kristine Iara (American Academy in Rome, Italy) 11. Augustus’ Triumphal and Triumph-like Returns, Carsten Hjort Lange (Aalborg University, Denmark) 12. Rites of Passage: On Ceremonial Movements and Vicarious Memories, Gitte Lønstrup Dal Santo (Danish Institute in Rome/Copenhagen, Denmark) 13. The Laetaniae Septiformes of Gregory I, S. Maria Maggiore and early Marian cult in Rome, Margaret M. Andrews (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 14. Movement and the Hero: Following St. Lawrence in Late Antique Rome, Michael Mulryan (University of Kent, Great Britain)
IV. Movement and Urban Form 15. Towards a History of Mobility in Ancient Rome (300 BCE to 100 CE), Ray Laurence (University of Kent, Great Britain) 16. ‘Ships are Seen Gliding Swiftly along the Sacred Tiber’: The River as an Artery of Urban Movement and Development, Simon Malmberg (University of Bergen, Norway) 17. Monuments and Images of the Moving City, Anne-Marie Leander Touati (Lund University, Sweden) 18. Mithraic Movement: Negotiating Topography and Space in Late Antique Rome, Jonas Bjørnebye (Norwegian Institute in Rome, Italy/Bardu, Norway) Index
