The Aurelian wall and the refashioning of imperial Rome, AD 271-855

"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 Weste...

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Main Author: Dey, Hendrik W., 1976-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Toward an architectural history of the Aurelian wall, from its beginnings through the ninth century
  • Planning, building, rebuilding, and maintenance : the logistical dynamics of a (nearly) interminable project
  • Motives, meaning, and context : the Aurelian wall and the late Roman state
  • The city, the suburbs, and the wall : the rise of a topographical institution
  • Sacred geography, interrupted
  • The wall and the "Republic of St. Peter"
  • Appendix A : Numerical data
  • Appendix B : The fourth century revisited : the problem of Maxentius
  • Appendix C : The post-Honorian additions to the Porta Appia and other fifth- and sixth-century construction
  • Appendix D : The Aurelian wall and the refashioning of the western tip of the Campus Martius
  • Appendix E : The Pons Agrippae and the Pons Aureli : a tale of two bridges.