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  • The Making of Medieval Rome

    A New Profile of the City, 400 – 1420

    by Hendrik Dey ...
    Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving remains and, most importantly, with the results of the past half-century's worth of medieval archaeology in the city, The Making of Medieval Rome is the first in-depth profile of Rome's transformation over a millennium to appear in any language in over forty years. Though the main focus rests on Rome's urban trajectory in topographical, ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD 271–855

    by Hendrik W. Dey ...
    This book explores the relationship between the city of Rome and the Aurelian Wall during the six centuries following its construction in the 270s AD, a period when the city changed and contracted almost beyond recognition, as it evolved from imperial capital into the spiritual center of Western Christendom. The Wall became the single most prominent feature in the urban landscape, a dominating ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Afterlife of the Roman City

    Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

    by Hendrik W. Dey ...
    This book offers a new and surprising perspective on the evolution of cities across the Roman Empire in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages (third to ninth centuries AD). It suggests that the tenacious persistence of leading cities across most of the Roman world is due, far more than previously thought, to the persistent inclination of kings, emperors, caliphs, bishops, and their leading ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Fifty Early Medieval Things

    Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

    by Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, Paolo Squatriti ...
    This important book [...] is a helpful guide to thinking with things and teaching with things. Each entry challenges the reader to approach objects as historical actors that can speak to the changes and continuities of life in the late antique and early medieval world.â• Early Medieval EuropeLavishly illustrated and engagingly written, Fifty Early Medieval Things demonstrates how to read objects ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of today’s “sculpture ... Read more

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  • The Prince

    by Niccol� Machiavelli, Maurizio Viroli ...
    Translated by Peter Bondanella ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. This fluent new translation is accompanied by comprehensive notes and an introduction that dispels some of the myths associated with Machiavelli, and considers the true purpose of The ... Read more

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  • Urban Society In Roman Italy

    Edited by Tim J. Cornell, Kathryn Lomas ...
    This collection of original essays focuses upon Roman Italy where, with over 400 cities, urbanization was at the very centre of Italian civilization. Informed by an awareness of the social and anthropological issues of recent research, these contributions explore not only questions of urban origins, interaction with the countryside and economic function, but also the social use of space within the ... Read more

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  • Rome

    An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present

    by Rabun Taylor, Katherine Wentworth Rinne, Spiro Kostof ...
    Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the start on self-reference, supplementing the everyday concerns of urban management and planning by projecting its own past onto the city of the moment. ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Roman Italy

    Edited by Alison E. Cooley ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Roman Italy investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms—political, cultural, social, and economic—upon Italy's various regions, as well as the extent to which unification occurred as Rome became the capital of Italy.The collection presents new archaeological data relating to the sites of Roman ItalyContributions discuss new theories of how to understand cultural change in the ... Read more

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  • The Tombs of Pompeii

    Organization, Space, and Society

    by Virginia Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ancient History
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the population, delving into the importance of social class and self-representation, and developing a broad understanding of Pompeii’s funerary epigraphy and business. The Pompeian corpus of evidence has heretofore been studied in a piecemeal fashion, not conducive to ... Read more

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  • The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden

    Religion at the Roman Street Corner

    by Harriet I. Flower ...
    The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were maintained primarily by ordinary Romans, and often by slaves and ... Read more

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  • Machiavelli

    A Portrait

    by Christopher S. Celenza ...
    "Explores why . . . The Prince . . . continues to enthrall readers and . . . can help enrich the way we understand [the statesman]. . . . A compelling portrait " ( Kirkus Reviews).The man whose name is shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more nuanced than his reputation suggests. Christopher Celenza's portrait of Machiavelli removes the varnish to reveal not just the hardnosed ... Read more

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