A Companion to Rome (c. 400-c. 1050)

Caroline Goodson

ISBN 10: 9004741763 / ISBN 13: 9789004741768

Published by Brill, NL, 2026

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This is the second volume of a two-volume work. Volume 1 can be found here.The city of Rome had a remarkable and complex urban continuity even after antiquity and it provided a model of urban living for other cities throughout the Middle Ages. Much existing research has nevertheless focused instead on Rome as the seat of papal power or as an influential idea rather than a real place. This volume radically 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 the history of Rome that are typically separated, namely late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, through a unique design of mirrored essays on key themes of Rome's urban history. This volume brings to an Anglophone audience new scholarship from scholars across Europe and America.Contributors are: Margaret Andrews, Shane Bobrycki, Giulia Bordi, François Bougard, Samuel Cohen, Marios Costambeys, Joseph Dyer, Clemens Gantner, Caroline Goodson, Robert Heffron, Julia Hillner, Mark Humphries, Paul Johnson, Maijastina Kahlos, Paolo Liverani, Markus Löx, 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Companion to Rome (c. 400-c. 1050)
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004741763
• ISBN 13: 9789004741768
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.49W x 3.51H x 23.5D centimeters 15.49 centimeters width by 3.51 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1310 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).