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Rome and Constantinople - Rewriting Roman History during Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Rome and Constantinople - Rewriting Roman History during Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Imperial Rome and Christian Constantinople were both astonishingly
large cities with over-sized appetites that served as potent
symbols of the Roman Empire and its rulers. Esteemed historian
Raymond Van Dam draws upon a wide array of evidence to reveal a
deep interdependence on imperial ideology and economy as he
elucidates the parallel workaday realities and lofty images in
their stories. Tracing the arc of empire from the Rome of Augustus
to Justinian's Constantinople, he masterfully shows how the
changing political structures, ideologies, and historical
narratives of Old and New Rome always remained rooted in the
bedrock of the ancient Mediterranean's economic and demographic
realities. The transformations in the Late Roman Empire, brought
about by the rise of the military and the church, required a
rewriting of the master narrative of history and signaled changes
in economic systems. Just as Old Rome had provided a stage set for
the performance of Republican emperorship, New Rome was configured
for the celebration of Christian rule. As it came to pass, a city
with too much history was outshone by a city with no history.
Provided with the urban amenities and an imagined history
appropriate to its elevated status, Constantinople could thus
resonate as the new imperial capital, while Rome, on the other
hand, was reinvented as the papal city.
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