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Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome - AD 270-535 (Hardcover)
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Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome - AD 270-535 (Hardcover)
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Between 270 and 535 AD the city of Rome experienced dramatic
changes. The once glorious imperial capital was transformed into
the much humbler centre of western Christendom in a process that
redefined its political importance, size, and identity. Urban Space
and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome examines these
transformations by focusing on the city's powerful elite, the
senatorial aristocracy, and exploring their involvement in a
process of urban change that would mark the end of the ancient
world and the birth of the Middle Ages in the eyes of
contemporaries and modern scholars. It argues that the late antique
history of Rome cannot be described as merely a product of decline;
instead, it was a product of the dynamic social and cultural forces
that made the city relevant at a time of unprecedented historical
changes. Combining the city's unique literary, epigraphic, and
archaeological record, the volume offers a detailed examination of
aspects of city life as diverse as its administration, public
building, rituals, housing, and religious life to show how the late
Roman aristocracy gave a new shape and meaning to urban space,
identifying itself with the largest city in the Mediterranean world
to an extent unparalleled since the end of the Republican period.
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