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Enemies at the gate : the city walls of ancient Rome
The walls of Rome provide an ever-renewed palimpsest of the Empire's history, from the 8th century BC to the fall of the Western Empire and beyond.
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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 Western Christendom. The Wall became the single most prominent feature in the urban landscape, a dominating presence which came bodily to incarnate the political, legal, administrative, and religious boundaries of urbs Roma, even as it reshaped both the physical contours of the city as a whole and the mental geographies of 'Rome' that prevailed at home and throughout the known world. With the passage of time, the circuit took on a life of its own as the embodiment of Rome's past greatness, a cultural and architectural legacy that dwarfed the quotidian realities of the post-imperial city as much as it shaped them.
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The Aurelian wall and the refashioning of Imperial Rome, A.D. 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 Western Christendom. The wall became the single most prominent feature in the urban landscape, a dominating presence which came bodily to incarnate the political, legal, administrative, and religious boundaries of urbs Roma, even as it reshaped both the physical contours of the city as a whole and the mental geographies of 'Rome' that prevailed at home and throughout the known world. With the passage of time, the circuit took on a life of its own as the embodiment of Rome's past greatness, a cultural and architectural legacy that dwarfed the quotidian realities of the post-imperial city as much as it shaped them\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Power and the Glorification
Focusing on a turbulent time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, The Power and the Glorification considers how, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the papacy employed the visual arts to help reinforce Catholic power structures. All means of propaganda were deployed to counter the papacy’s eroding authority in the wake of the Great Schism of 1378 and in response to the upheaval surrounding the Protestant Reformation a century later. In the Vatican and elsewhere in Rome, extensive decorative cycles were commissioned to represent the strength of the church and historical justifications for its supreme authority. Replicating the contemporary viewer’s experience is central to De Jong’s approach, and he encourages readers to consider the works through fifteenth- and sixteenth-century eyes. De Jong argues that most visitors would only have had a limited knowledge of the historical events represented in these works, and would likely have accepted (or been intended to accept) what they saw at face value. With that end in mind, the painters’ advisors did their best to “manipulate” the viewer accordingly, and De Jong discusses their strategies and methods.
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Poggio Civitate (Murlo)
Poggio Civitate in Murlo, Tuscany, is home to one of the best-preserved Etruscan communities of the eighth through the sixth centuries BCE. In this book, Anthony Tuck, the director of excavations, provides a broad synthesis of decades of data from the site.The results of many years of excavation at Poggio Civitate tell a story of growth, urbanization, ancient industrialization, and dissolution. The site preserves traces of aristocratic domestic buildings, including some of the most evocative and enigmatic architectural sculpture in the region, along with remnants of non-elite domestic spaces, enabling illuminating comparisons across social strata. The settlement also features evidence of large-scale production systems, including tools and other objects that reflect the daily experiences of laborers. Finally, the site contains the story of its own destruction. Tuck finds in the data clear indications that Poggio Civitate was methodically dismantled, and he posits hypotheses concerning the circumstances around this violent social and political act.
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The Lives and Deaths of Women in Ancient Pompeii
A study of women’s lives in the public sphere of
the ancient city of Pompeii.
Pompeii’s well-preserved remains provide a unique
opportunity for the close study of ancient lives. Drawing on
statues, inscriptions, graffiti, wall paintings, and the
architecture of tombs, sanctuaries, houses, and public spaces,
The Lives and Deaths of Women in Ancient Pompeii
examines the public lives of women in Pompeii. Art historian
Brenda Longfellow explores how historical women of all social
backgrounds acted in public and exerted agency on behalf of
themselves and others, ultimately finding that female
initiatives in Pompeii were not only accepted but desired by
the community to a greater extent than has previously been
recognized.
Longfellow centers her study on a few key
women—including the city’s most notable female
patron, Eumachia—and uses them to examine female roles in
postmortem commemorations, civic patronage and benefactions,
commerce, the priesthood, and the home. By following these
individuals, Longfellow examines women’s lives in Pompeii
in both abstract and concrete ways, allowing readers to better
understand their importance to the city and society. The result
is a groundbreaking book that foregrounds the agency of women
in everyday Pompeii.
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