Rome's Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9780190492274 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 304 str.

Jason Moralee

Opis

Rome's Holy Mountain is the first book to chart the history of the Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE. It investigates both the lived-in and dreamed-of realities of the hill in an era of fundamental political, religious, and social change.

Recenzje

Moralee's book expertly and surprisingly charts the history of the hill through transformations of imperial ceremony, state religion, and strategies of social memory between the fourth and seventh centuries to show how the history of a place and the memories of its ancient functions carried forward into the early middle ages. This is an excellent, stimulating read about the history of ideas and how ideas attach to places... Moralee is to be congratulated on an exciting, insightful, and learned contribution to our understanding of how Rome's past gave rise to its future.

O autorze

Jason Moralee is Associate Professor of History at University of Massachusetts Amherst.