Автор: Chris Wickham
Название: Medieval Rome: Stability and Crisis of a City, 900-1150
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2015
ISBN: 978-0199684960
Серия: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
Язык: English
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10,4 mb
Страниц: 512
This volume doesn't merely seek to tell the story of the city from the traditional Church standpoint; instead, it engages in studies of the city's processions, material culture, legal transformations, and sense of the past, seeking to unravel the complexities of Roman cultural identity, including its urban economy, social history as seen across the different strata of society, and the articulation between the city's regions.
This new approach serves to underpin a major reinterpretation of Rome's political history in the era of the 'reform papacy', one of the greatest crises in Rome's history, which had a resonance across the entire continent. Medieval Rome is the most systematic analysis ever made of two and a half centuries of Rome's history, one which saw centuries of stability undermined by external crisis and the long period of reconstruction which followed.