The making of medieval Rome: a new profile of the city, 400-1420

Abstract

"This book purports to be the fullest treatment in any language of Rome's urban evolution across the full medieval millennium to appear in over forty years, since the publication, in 1980, of Richard Krautheimer's justly renowned Rome, Profile of a City 312-1308. As such, it has a staggering amount of ground to cover, and needs to inform and (ideally) please a dauntingly wide range of prospective readers. It is a robust testament to the reach and quality of Krautheimer's book that it remains, even today, a standard resource for practicing scholars, for students, and--one assumes--for that legendary and much sought-after beast in academic publishing circles, the 'educated general reader'."-- Preface (page vii).

Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- The Eternal City on the brink: Rome in AD 400 -- 401-552: From imperial metropolis to provincial town -- 552-705: Byzantine Rome -- 705-882: A papal "Republic of the Romans" -- 882-1046: The long twilight of the early Middle Ages -- 1046-1230: Church reformed, Senate reborn, Rome renascent -- 1230-1420: Barons, Babylonian Captivity, and Black Death. The apogee and agony of late Medieval Rome -- Epilogue: Rome and Pope Nicholas V (1447-55)