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The sites of Rome : time, space, memory
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ISBN: 9780199217496 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

Sacra Via : twenty years after
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ISBN: 8391825027 Year: 2004 Publisher: Warsaw : Warsaw University. Institute of Archaeology,

Rome before Avignon : a social history of thirteenth-century Rome
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ISBN: 0520069528 0465071252 0585114544 Year: 1990 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,


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Historiography and space in late antiquity
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ISBN: 1316997820 1108686680 1108481280 1108653928 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Roman Empire traditionally presented itself as the centre of the world, a view sustained by ancient education and conveyed in imperial literature. Historiography in particular tended to be written from an empire-centred perspective. In Late Antiquity, however, that attitude was challenged by the fragmentation of the empire. This book explores how a post-imperial representation of space emerges in the historiography of that period. Minds adapted slowly, long ignoring Constantinople as the new capital and still finding counter-worlds at the edges of the world. Even in Christian literature, often thought of as introducing a new conception of space, the empire continued to influence geographies. Political changes and theological ideas, however, helped to imagine a transferral of empire away from Rome and to substitute ecclesiastical for imperial space. By the end of Late Antiquity, Rome was just one of many centres of the world.

The sites of Rome
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ISBN: 1281149632 9786611149635 019152719X 9780191527197 0199217491 9780199217496 9781281149633 6611149635 1383035571 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford New York Oxford University Press

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This is a collection of essays exploring how the visible components of Rome - the hills, the Tiber, the temples, the Forums, the Colosseum, the statues and monuments - operate as, or become, the sites/sights of Rome. The variety of theoretical approaches stimulates fresh thought about Rome's primacy in Western culture.


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A topographical dictionary of ancient Rome
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ISBN: 1316219704 1108083242 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This useful topographical dictionary was compiled by Samuel Ball Platner (1863-1921) of Western Reserve University in collaboration with Thomas Ashby (1874-1931), the third director of the British School of Archaeology at Rome. Sadly, Platner died before the work was completed, and Ashby eventually published it in 1929. The bulk of the work is an alphabetical list of the buildings, streets and geographical features in ancient Rome mentioned by ancient authors and/or discovered by more recent exploration and excavation of the ruins, with details about literary and historical references, and about the original and any surviving structure. There is also a chronological index to those monuments and other buildings that are dateable, and a large map (downloadable from the web at www.cambridge.org/9781108083249). With listings from 'Acca Larentia' to 'Zater(...nses)', the work is an invaluable tool in the exploration of Rome, whether by the scholar, student, or visitor.

Art history in the age of Bellori : scholarship and cultural politics in seventeenth-century Rome
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ISBN: 0521782481 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press


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Guide to baroque Rome
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ISBN: 0246117621 Year: 1982 Publisher: London Granada

Late Roman African cookware of the Palatine east excavations, Rome : a holistic approach.
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ISBN: 1841715158 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford Archaeopress


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The Roman Forum : a reconstruction and architectural guide
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ISBN: 9780521192446 9780511894640 9780521171328 0521192447 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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"The Roman Forum was in many ways the heart of the Roman Empire. Today, the Forum exists in a fragmentary state, having been destroyed and plundered by barbarians, aristocrats, citizens and priests over the past two millennia. Enough remains, however, for archaeologists to reconstruct its spectacular buildings and monuments. This richly illustrated volume provides an architectural history of the central section of the Roman Forum during the Empire (31 BCE-476 CE), from the Temple of Julius Caesar to the monuments on the slope of the Capitoline hill. Bringing together state-of-the-art technology in architectural illustration and the expertise of a prominent Roman archaeologist, this book offers a unique reconstruction of the Forum, providing architectural history, a summary of each building's excavation and research, scaled digital plans, elevations, and reconstructed aerial images that not only shed light on the Forum's history but vividly bring it to life. With this book, scholars, students, architects and artists will be able to visualize for the first time since antiquity the character, design and appearance of the famous heart of ancient Rome"--

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