The Rock of Arles

Founded 2600 years ago on a massive limestone eminence, the city of Arles has been the home of Roman emperors and captured slaves, pagan temples and Christian spires, bloody revolutionaries and powerful papists. In The Rock of Arles Richard Klein relays the history of the city as told to him by the Rock, its genius loci, which infallibly remembers every moment of its existence, from the Roman conquest of Gaul to the fall of feudal aristocracy, from the domination of the Catholic Church to the present representative democracy. The Rock’s contrarian and dissident history resurrects the memory of three of the city’s most radical yet largely forgotten revolutionary minds: Hellenistic philosopher Favorinus, medieval Hebrew poet Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, and the revolutionary aristocrat Pierre-Antoine Antonelle. For the Rock, each figure represents a freethinking current running through Arlesian history, which contested the reactionary, bigoted forces that governed the city for fifteen centuries. Erudite, witty, and opinionated, the Rock tells the story of Arles in order to sketch the broader canvas of European history while invoking the city’s possible future.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2024
First published:	2024
Authors:	Richard Klein
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-2572-6
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-4780-2572-7
Barcode:	9781478025726

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