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Autore: |
Grig Lucy
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Titolo: |
Two Romes [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lucy Grig and Gavin Kelly
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (482 p.) |
Disciplina: | 937/.6309 |
Soggetto topico: | City and town life - Rome - History |
City and town life - Turkey - Istanbul - History - To 1500 | |
Social change - Rome - History | |
Social change - Turkey - Istanbul - History - To 1500 | |
Soggetto geografico: | Rome (Italy) History |
Istanbul (Turkey) History | |
Rome Historiography | |
Istanbul (Turkey) Historiography | |
Rome (Italy) Relations Turkey Istanbul | |
Istanbul (Turkey) Relations Italy Rome | |
Altri autori: |
GrigLucy
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Contributors; Part I: Introduction: Rome and Constantinople in Context; 1. Introduction: From Rome to Constantinople; 2. Competing Capitals, Competing Representations: Late Antique Cityscapes in Words and Pictures; 3. Old and New Rome Compared: The Rise of Constantinople; Part II: Urban Space and Urban Development in Comparative Perspective; 4. The Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae; 5. Water and Late Antique Constantinople: "It would be abominable for the inhabitants of this Beautiful City to be compelled to purchase water." |
6. Aristocratic Houses and the Making of Late Antique Rome and ConstantinoplePart III: Emperors in the City; 7. Valentinian III and the City of Rome (425-55): Patronage, Politics, Power; 8. Playing the Ritual Game in Constantinople (379-457); Part IV: Panegyric; 9. Bright Lights, Big City: Pacatus and the Panegyrici Latini; 10. A Tale of Two Cities: Th emistius on Rome and Constantinople; 11. Claudian and Constantinople; 12. Epic Panegyric and Political Communication in the Fifth-Century West; Part V: Christian Capitals?; 13. There but Not There: Constantinople in the Itinerarium Burdigalense | |
14. Virgilizing Christianity in Late Antique Rome15. "Two Romes, Beacons of the Whole World": Canonizing Constantinople; 16. Between Petrine Ideology and Realpolitik: The See of Constantinople in Roman Geo-Ecclesiology (449-536); Part VI: Epilogue; 17. From Rome to New Rome, from Empire to Nation-State: Reopening the Question of Byzantium's Roman Identity; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; Index Locorum | |
Sommario/riassunto: | The city of Constantinople was named New Rome or Second Rome very soon after its foundation in AD 324; over the next two hundred years it replaced the original Rome as the greatest city of the Mediterranean. In this unified essay collection, prominent international scholars examine the changing roles and perceptions of Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity from a range of different disciplines and scholarly perspectives. The seventeen chapters cover both the comparative development and the shifting status of the two cities. Developments in politics and urbanism are considered, along with t |
Titolo autorizzato: | Two Romes ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-024108-X |
1-280-59485-3 | |
9786613624680 | |
0-19-992118-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996201651203316 |
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