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This book explores the relationship between the city of Rome and the Aurelian Wall during the six centuries following its construction in the 270s AD, a period when the city changed and contracted almost beyond recognition, as it evolved from imperial capital into the spiritual center of Western Christendom. The Wall became the single most prominent feature in the urban landscape, a dominating presence which came bodily to incarnate the political, legal, administrative, and religious boundaries of urbs Roma, even as it reshaped both the physical contours of the city as a whole and the mental geographies of 'Rome' that prevailed at home and throughout the known world. With the passage of time, the circuit took on a life of its own as the embodiment of Rome's past greatness, a cultural and architectural legacy that dwarfed the quotidian realities of the post-imperial city as much as it shaped them.

Walls --- Urban landscape architecture --- Architecture and society --- City and town life --- Social change --- Murs --- Paysage urbain --- Architecture et société --- Vie urbaine --- Changement social --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- Rome (Italy) --- Rome (Italie) --- Antiquities --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Geography. --- Social life and customs. --- Antiquités --- Constructions --- Géographie --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Architecture et société --- Antiquités --- Géographie --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Landscape architecture --- Building --- Foundations --- Masonry --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Rome (Italy : Commune) --- Rome (Italy : Governatorato) --- Rūmah (Italy) --- Roma (Italy) --- Rom (Italy) --- Rím (Italy) --- Rzym (Italy) --- Comune di Roma (Italy) --- Rome --- Antiquities, Roman. --- Rome (Italy : Comune) --- Social Sciences --- Archeology

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Integrating the written sources with Rome's survivng remains and, most importantly, with hte results of the past half-century's worth of medieval archaeology in the city, 'The Making of Medieval Rome' is the first in-depth profile of Rome's transformation during the medieval millenium to appear in any language in over forty years. Though the main focus rests on Rome's urban trajectory in topographical, architectural, and archaeological terms, Dey folds aspects of ecclesiastical, political, social, military, economic, and intellectual history into the narrative in order to illustrate how and why the cityscape evolved as it did during the thousand years between the end of the Roman Empire and the start of the Renaissance. A wide-ranging synthesis of decades' worth of specialized research and remarkable archaeological discoveries, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in how the ancient imperial capital transformed into the spiritual heart of western Christendom.

City planning --- Architecture, Ancient --- Architecture, Medieval --- Church architecture --- History --- Rome (Italy) --- Urbanisme --- Roma --- Moyen Age

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Social change --- Structural parts and elements of building --- Environmental planning --- Architecture --- Rome

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"Space has always played a crucial part in defining the place that monks and nuns occupy in the world. Even during the first centuries of the monastic phenomenon, when the possible varieties of monastic practice were nearly infinite, there was a common thread in the need to differentiate the monk from the rest: whatever else they were supposed to be, monks were beings apart, unique, in some sense separate from the mainstream. The physical contours of monastic topographies, natural and constructed, are thus fundamental to an understanding of how early monks went about defining the parameters of their everyday lives, their modes of religious observance, and their interactions with the larger world around them. The group of eminent historians and archaeologists present at the American Academy in Rome in March, 2007 for the conference 'Western monasticism ante litteram'"

271 "00/06" --- Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--?"00/06" --- Monasteries --- Monasticism and religious orders --- History --- Monachisme et ordres religieux --- Monastères --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- 271.05 --- Monachism --- Monastic orders --- Monasticism and religious orders for men --- Monasticism and religious orders of men --- Orders, Monastic --- Orders, Religious --- Religious orders --- Brotherhoods --- Christian communities --- Brothers (Religious) --- Friars --- Monks --- Superiors, Religious --- Cloisters (Religious communities) --- Friaries --- Church property --- Religious institutions --- Scriptoria --- 271.05 Ontstaan van het monnikenwezen. Oudste monachisme --- Ontstaan van het monnikenwezen. Oudste monachisme --- Monasticism and religious orders - History - Early church, ca 30-600 - Congresses --- Monasticism and religious orders - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 - Congresses --- Monasteries - Europe - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Monachisme et ordres religieux chrétiens --- Architecture religieuse --- 30-600 (Église primitive) --- Moyen âge