Author: Amy MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Mirabilia Urbis Romae
Author: Amy MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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The Marvels of Rome, Or a Picture of the Golden City
Author: Francis Morgan NicholsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Mirabilia Urbis Romae
Author: Francis Morgan NicholsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780934977029
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Written for the pilgrim and sightseer c.1143 by Benedict, a canon of St. Peter's, this is the best medieval guide to the city and an important source for the location of its medieval churches and ancient monuments. It narrates the early Christian legends that are connected with many of these sites; and documents the medieval sense of Rome's ancient grandeur. In the twelfth century the inhabited part of Rome, the abitato, as it was called, was a small city tucked into the bend of the Tiber River in the midst of the ruins of the great ancient city. The walls and gates of the ancient city were still in place, and between them and the abitato were fields where the animals grazed among the temples and baths. This edition contains the full text of the Marvels, a detailed Gazetteer identifying all the sites mentioned and providing full bibliographical and topographical references, a new introduction, 5 maps, bibliography, and index. 2nd ed., illustrated.
Imagined Romes
Author: C. David BensonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271083956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome—one of the most important European cities in the medieval imagination—in late Middle English poetry. Once the capital of a great pagan empire whose ruined monuments still inspired awe in the Middle Ages, Rome, the seat of the pope, became a site of Christian pilgrimage owing to the fame of its early martyrs, whose relics sanctified the city and whose help was sought by pilgrims to their shrines. C. David Benson analyzes the variety of ways that Rome and its citizens, both pre-Christian and Christian, are presented in a range of Middle English poems, from lesser-known, anonymous works to the poetry of Gower, Chaucer, Langland, and Lydgate. Benson discusses how these poets conceive of ancient Rome and its citizens—especially the women of Rome—as well as why this matters to their works. An insightful and innovative study, Imagined Romes addresses a crucial lacuna in the scholarship of Rome in the medieval imaginary and provides fresh perspectives on the work of four of the most prominent Middle English poets.
Roma Felix – Formation and Reflections of Medieval Rome
Author: Éamonn Ó CarragáinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351902628
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 671
Book Description
After the Roman empire fell, medieval Europe continued to be fascinated by Rome itself, the 'chief of cities'. Once the hub of empire, in the early medieval period Rome became an important centre for western Christianity, first of all as the place where Peter, Paul and many other important early Christian saints were martyred: their deaths for the Christian faith gave the city the appellation 'Roma Felix', 'Happy Rome'. But in Rome the history of the faith, embodied in the shrines of the martyrs, coexisted with the living centre of the western Latin church. Because Peter had been recognised by Christ as chief among the apostles and was understood to have been the first bishop of Rome, his successors were acknowledged as patriarchs of the West and Rome became the focal point around which the western Latin church came to be organised. This book explores ways in which Rome itself was preserved, envisioned, and transformed by its residents, and also by the many pilgrims who flocked to the shrines of the martyrs. It considers how northern European cultures (in particular, the Irish and English) imagined and imitated the city as they understood it. The fourteen articles presented here range from the fourth to the twelfth century and span the fields of history, art history, urban topography, liturgical studies and numismatics. They provide an introduction to current thinking about the ways in which medieval people responded to the material remains of Rome's classical and early Christian past, and to the associations of centrality, spirituality, and authority which the city of Rome embodied for the earlier Middle Ages. Acknowledgements for grants in aid of publication are due to the Publication Fund of the College of Arts, Humanities, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at University College Cork; to the Publication Fund of the National University of Ireland, Dublin; and to the Office of the Provost, Ohio Wesleyan University.
Mirabilia Urbis Romae. The Marvels of Rome Or a Picture of the Golden City...
Author: Francis Morgan NicholsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Rome Across Time and Space
Author: Claudia BolgiaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052119217X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
An exploration of the significance of medieval Rome, both as a physical city and an idea with immense cultural capital.
Writing Rome
Author: Catharine EdwardsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521559522
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The city of Rome is built not only of bricks and marble but also of the words of its writers. For the ancient inhabitant or visitor, the buildings of Rome, the public spaces of the city, were crowded with meanings and associations. These meanings were generated partly through activities associated with particular places, but Rome also took on meanings from literature written about the city: stories of its foundation, praise of its splendid buildings, laments composed by those obliged to leave it. Ancient writers made use of the city to explore the complexities of Roman history, power and identity. This book aims to chart selected aspects of Rome's resonance in literature and the literary resonance of Rome. A wide range of texts are explored, from later periods as well as from antiquity, since, as the author hopes to show, Gibbon, Goethe and others can be revealing guides to the literary topography of ancient Rome.
Mirabilia Urbis Romae; the Marvel of Rome, Or a Picture of the Golden City
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230429533
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... Bays" at Saint Helen's; the cemetery of the Capped Bear6s at Saint Viviana; the cemetery of the ager Veranus at Saint Laurence [without the walls]; the cemetery of Saint Agnes; the cemetery of Saint Peter's well;S9 Priscilla's cemetery at the Salarian bridge; the cemetery at the Cucumber Hill;*50 Traso's cemetery at Saint Saturninus; the cemetery of Saint Felicity nigh unto that of Calixtus; [the cemetery of Saint Marcellus on the old Salarian Way; the cemetery of Balbina on the Ardeatine Way; the cemetery of the Innocents at Saint Paul]; the Pontian cemetery; the 67 Inter duos lauros. The burial-place of St. Helen, on the Via Labicana. . 58 Cimiterium urfipileati. See note 56 69 Cimiterium fontis [al. ad nympham] sancti Petri. The fans S. Petri was on the Via Nomentana, where St. Peter was said to have baptized. De Rossi, Roma Soitcrranea, i. 159, 179. 60 Cimiterium clivi cucumeris. The oldest copies have cimiterium cucumeris. The spot, locus qui dicitur cucumeris, is described by William of Malmestiury as near the point where the Via P'mciana joined the Via Salaria. Will. Malmcsb. cd. Savil, 1601, p. 135 cemetery of Saint Hermes and Domitilla; the cemetery of Saint Cyriac on the Ostian way. [These cemeteries were chambers under ground that some, times stretched for three miles, and wherein the holy martyrs were hidden.] 12. Of places where Saints suffered DEGREES THESE are the places that are found in the passions of Saints: without the Appian gate, the place where the blessed Sixtus was beheaded, and the place where the Lord appeared to Peter, when he said, Lord, whither goest thou, and the temple of Mars;02 01 Professor Jordan {Topographie, ii. 380) has supplied most of'the references to the Acta Sanctorum, which I give below. See...
Rome and The Guidebook Tradition
Author: Anna BlennowPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110615630
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
To this day, no comprehensive academic study of the development of guidebooks to Rome over time has been performed. This book treats the history of guidebooks to Rome from the Middle Ages up to the early twentieth century. It is based on the results of the interdisciplinary research project Topos and Topography, led by Anna Blennow and Stefano Fogelberg Rota. From the case studies performed within the project, it becomes evident that the guidebook as a phenomenon was formed in Rome during the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance. The elements and rhetorical strategies of guidebooks over time have shown to be surprisingly uniform, with three important points of development: a turn towards a more user-friendly structure from the seventeenth century and onward; the so-called ’Baedeker effect’ in the mid-nineteenth century; and the introduction of a personalized guiding voice in the first half of the twentieth century. Thus, the ‘guidebook tradition’ is an unusually consistent literary oeuvre, which also forms a warranty for the authority of every new guidebook. In this respect, the guidebook tradition is intimately associated with the city of Rome, with which it shares a constantly renovating yet eternally fixed nature.
