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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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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- 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.