Rome across Time and Space
Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas, c.500–1400

An exploration of the significance of medieval Rome, both as a physical city and an idea with immense cultural capital.

Claudia Bolgia (Edited by), Rosamond McKitterick (Edited by), John Osborne (Edited by)

9780521192170, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 April 2011

372 pages, 39 b/w illus. 2 maps 2 tables 2 music examples
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.67 kg

'This book offers the latest word on a range of subjects: the early Liber Pontificalis, the Gelasianum, the abbey church of St Denis, Charlemagne's columns, and the Vatican Job manuscript, to name a few. It shows the people of medieval Rome to have been highly literary, historically aware and politically savvy, and that that cultural sophistication proved influential beyond the Aurelian Wall.' Caroline Goodson, Early Medieval Europe

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.500–1400: 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
Part II. The Translation of the 'Roman' Liturgy North of the Alps: 4. The periphery rethinks the centre: inculturation, 'Roman' liturgy and the Ruthwell Cross Éamonn Ó Carragáin
5. The liturgy of the 'Roman' office in England from the conversion to the conquest Jesse D. Billett
6. The Romanization of the Frankish liturgy: ideal, reality, and the rhetoric of reform Yitzhak Hen
Part III. Architectural Inspiration and Sculptural Models within and without Rome: 7. Building more romano in Francia during the third quarter of the eighth century: the abbey church of Saint-Denis and its model Judson J. Emerick
8. Reception and renovation of Early Christian churches in Rome, c.1050–1300 Sible de Blaauw
9. Giudizio sul Mille: Rome, Montecassino, S. Vincenzo al Volturno, and the beginnings of Romanesque John Mitchell
10. The discourse of columns Dale Kinney
Part IV. Cultural Exchanges: 11. Design and decoration: re-visualizing Rome in Anglo-Saxon sculpture Jane Hawkes
12. Rome and Constantinople in the ninth century John Osborne
13. Antiquity, Rome, and Florence: coinage and transmissions across time and space William R. Day, Jr
Part V. Patrons, Artists and Ideas on the Move: 14. French patrons abroad and at home: 1260–1300 Julian Gardner
15. Art-historical reflections on the fall of the Colonna, 1297 Paul Binski
16. Exports to Padua Trecento style: Altichiero's Roman legacy Louise Bourdua
Part VI. Roman and Papal Jurisdictions: 17. A new Rome in a small place? Imitation and re-creation in the Patrimony of St Peter Brenda Bolton
18. Appealing to Rome (and Avignon) before the Black Death: ecclesiastical disputes and church patronage in medieval Tuscany George Dameron.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1], European history [HBJD]