Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West

Julia M.H. Smith

ISBN 10: 9004117164 / ISBN 13: 9789004117167

Published by Brill, NL, 2000

About this Item

This 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.

Seller Inventory # LU-9789004117167

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West
• Publisher: Brill, NL
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004117164
• ISBN 13: 9789004117167
• Binding: Leather Bound
• Edition: Bilingual.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.5W x 3.5H x 23.5D centimeters 15.5 centimeters width by 3.5 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1017 grams

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Synopsis

This 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.

About the Author

Julia M.H. Smith, D.Phil. (1985), Oxford, is Reader in Mediaeval History at the University of St. Andrews, where she teaches late antique and early medieval European history. She publishes widely on politics, religion and gender in Carolingian Europe.