Companion to Rome C. 400-1050

This volume presents state-of-the-art research on the city of Rome between 400 and 1050. It gives equal weight to the late antique and early medieval periods, and foregrounds Rome's social history and the material evidence which speaks to life in the city.

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 spätantiken Rom (Habelt, 2004), Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity (CUP, 2015), and Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire (OUP, 2023).