The Ruin of the Eternal City

The Ruin of the Eternal City
Author: David Karmon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-04-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199877467

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The Ruin of the Eternal City provides the first systematic analysis of the preservation practices of the popes, civic magistrates, and ordinary citizens of Renaissance Rome. This study offers a new understanding of historic preservation as it occurred during the extraordinary rebuilding of a great European capital city.

The Sites of Rome

The Sites of Rome
Author: David H. J. Larmour
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 019152719X

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Rome was a building site for much of its history, a city continually reshaped and reconstituted in line with political and cultural change. In later times, the conjunction of ruins and rebuilding lent the cityscape a particularly fascinating character, much exploited by artists and writers. This layering and changing of vistas also finds expression in the literary tradition, from classical times right up to the twenty-first-century. This collection of essays offers glimpses, sideways glances and unexpected angles that open up Rome in its widest possible sense, and explores how the visible components of Rome - the hills, the Tiber, the temples, the Forums, the Colosseum, the statues and monuments - operate as, or become, the sites/sights of Rome.The analyses are informed by contemporary critical thinking and draw on ancient historical narrative, Roman poetry, Renaissance literature and cartography, art of the Grand Tour era, Russian and Soviet interpretations, and twentieth-century cinema.

RUINS & EXCAVATIONS OF ANCIENT

RUINS & EXCAVATIONS OF ANCIENT
Author: Rodolfo Amedeo 1847-1929 Lanciani
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2016-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781363820061

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Places of Memory: Spatialised Practices of Remembrance from Prehistory to Today

Places of Memory: Spatialised Practices of Remembrance from Prehistory to Today
Author: Christian Horn
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2020-09-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789696143

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This book examines spatialised practices of remembrance and its role in reshaping societies from prehistory to today; it presents a reflection on the creation of memories through the organisation and use of landscapes and spaces that explicitly considers the multiplicity of meanings of the past.

Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome

Performance, Memory, and Processions in Ancient Rome
Author: Jacob A. Latham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2016-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107130719

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The pompa circensis was a political pageant and a religious ritual that produced a republican, imperial, and even Christian image of the city. In this book, Jacob A. Latham explores the play between performance and itinerary, tracing the transformations of the circus procession from the late Republic to late antiquity.

Memories of Utopia

Memories of Utopia
Author: Bronwen Neil
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 042982789X

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These essays examine how various communities remembered and commemorated their shared past through the lens of utopia and its corollary, dystopia, providing a framework for the reinterpretation of rapidly changing religious, cultural, and political realities of the turbulent period from 300 to 750 CE. The common theme of the chapters is the utopian ideals of religious groups, whether these are inscribed on the body, on the landscape, in texts, or on other cultural objects. The volume is the first to apply this conceptual framework to Late Antiquity, when historically significant conflicts arose between the adherents of four major religious identities: Greaco-Roman 'pagans', newly dominant Christians; diaspora Jews, who were more or less persecuted, depending on the current regime; and the emerging religion and power of Islam. Late Antiquity was thus a period when dystopian realities competed with memories of a mythical Golden Age, variously conceived according to the religious identity of the group. The contributors come from a range of disciplines, including cultural studies, religious studies, ancient history, and art history, and employ both theoretical and empirical approaches. This volume is unique in the range of evidence it draws upon, both visual and textual, to support the basic argument that utopia in Late Antiquity, whether conceived spiritually, artistically, or politically, was a place of the past but also of the future, even of the afterlife. Memories of Utopia will be of interest to historians, archaeologists, and art historians of the later Roman Empire, and those working on religion in Late Antiquity and Byzantium.

Rome after Sulla

Rome after Sulla
Author: J. Alison Rosenblitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472580591

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Rome after Sulla offers a new perspective on the damaged, volatile, and conflictual political culture of the late Roman republic. The book begins with a narrative of the years immediately following the dictatorship of Sulla (80-77 BC), providing both a new reconstruction of events and original analysis of key sources including Cicero's pro Roscio, Appian, the Livian tradition, and Sallust's Historiae. Arguing that Sulla's settlement was never stable, Rome after Sulla emphasises the uncertainty and fear felt by contemporaries and the problems caused in Rome by consciousness of the injustices of the Sullan settlement and its lack of moral legitimacy. The book argues that the events and the unresolved traumas of the first civil war of the Roman republic triggered profound changes in Roman political culture, to which Sallust's magnum opus, his now-fragmentary Historiae, is our best guide. An in-depth exploration of a new, more Sallust-centred vision of the late republic contributes to the historical picture not only of the legacy of Sulla, but also of Caesar and of Rome's move from republic to autocratic rule. The book studies a society grappling with a question broader than its own times: what is the price of stability?