Rome across Time and Space: Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas, c.5001400 [Paperback]

An exploration of the significance of medieval Rome, both as a physical city and an idea with immense cultural capital.Medieval Rome was uniquely important, both as a physical city and as an idea with immense cultural capital. Rome Across Time and Space explores these twin dimensions of 'place' and 'idea' and analyses Rome's role in the transmission of culture throughout the Middle Ages.Medieval Rome was uniquely important, both as a physical city and as an idea with immense cultural capital. Rome Across Time and Space explores these twin dimensions of 'place' and 'idea' and analyses Rome's role in the transmission of culture throughout the Middle Ages.Medieval Rome was uniquely important, both as a physical city and as an idea with immense cultural capital, encapsulating the legacy of the ancient Empire, the glorious world of the martyrs and the triumph of Christian faith. Rome Across Time and Space explores these twin dimensions of 'place' and 'idea' and analyses Rome's role in the transmission of culture throughout the Middle Ages. Ranging widely over liturgy, architecture, sculpture and textual history, the authors focus on the mutual enrichment derived from the exchange of ideas and illuminate how cultural exchanges between Rome and its 'neighbours' (Byzantium, Italy, England and France), and within Rome (between Ancient and early Christian Rome and the medieval city) worked as catalysts for change, both to shape the medieval city and to help construct the medieval idea of Rome itself. The result is a rich and original perspective on a beguiling city with enduring appeal.Introduction: Rome across time and space, c.5001400: cultural transmission and the exchange of ideas Claudia Bolgia; Part I. Roman Texts and Roman History: 1. Roman texts and Roman history in the early Middle Ages Rosamond McKitterick; 2. Monuments and histories: ideas and images of antiquity in some descriptions of Rome Maurizio Campanelli; 3. Rome, reservoir of ancient texts? Michael Reeve; lS