The Aurelian wall and the refashioning of Imperial Rome, A.D. 271-855 /

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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 Weste...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dey, Hendrik W., 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Walls > Italy > Rome > History.
Urban landscape architecture > Italy > Rome > History.
Architecture and society > Italy > Rome > History.
City and town life > Italy > Rome > History.
Social change > Italy > Rome > History.
Murs > Italie > Rome > Histoire.
Paysage urbain > Italie > Rome > Histoire.
Architecture et société > Italie > Rome > Histoire.
Vie urbaine > Italie > Rome > Histoire.
HISTORY > Ancient.
Architecture and society
Buildings
City and town life
Classical antiquities
Geography
Manners and customs
Social change
Urban landscape architecture
Walls
Stadtentwicklung.
Stadsmurar > historia.
Stadsliv > historia.
Arkitektur och samhälle > historia.
Rome (Italy) > Antiquities, Roman.
Rome (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Rome (Italy) > Geography.
Rome (Italy) > Social life and customs.
Rome (Italie) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Italy > Rome
Aurelianische Mauer > Rom
Rom; Aurelianische Mauer.
Romerska riket.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Toward an architectural history of the Aurelian wall, from its beginnings through the ninth century
  • Planning, building, rebuilding, and maintenance : the logistical dynamics of a (nearly) interminable project
  • Motives, meaning, and context : the Aurelian wall and the late Roman state
  • The city, the suburbs, and the wall : the rise of a topographical institution
  • Sacred geography, interrupted
  • The wall and the "Republic of St. Peter"
  • Appendix A: Numerical data
  • Appendix B: The fourth century revisited : the problem of Maxentius
  • Appendix C: The post-Honorian additions to the Porta Appia and other fifth- and sixth-century construction
  • Appendix D: The Aurelian wall and the refashioning of the western tip of the Campus Martius
  • Appendix E: The Pons Agrippae and the Pons Aureli : a tale of two bridges.

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