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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Machado, Carlos (1973-....)
Titre(s) : Urban space and aristocratic power in late antique Rome [Texte imprimé] : AD 270-535 / Carlos Machado
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xix, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-301) and indexes
Between 270 and 535 AD the city of Rome experienced dramatic changes. The once glorious
imperial capital was transformed into the much humbler centre of western Christendom
in a process that redefined its political importance, size, and identity. Urban Space
and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome examines these transformations by focusing
on the city's powerful elite, the senatorial aristocracy, and exploring their involvement
in a process of urban change that would mark the end of the ancient world and the
birth of the Middle Ages in the eyes of contemporaries and modern scholars. It argues
that the late antique history of Rome cannot be described as merely a product of decline;
instead, it was a product of the dynamic social and cultural forces that made the
city relevant at a time of unprecedented historical changes. Combining the city's
unique literary, epigraphic, and archaeological record, the volume offers a detailed
examination of aspects of city life as diverse as its administration, public building,
rituals, housing, and religious life to show how the late Roman aristocracy gave a
new shape and meaning to urban space, identifying itself with the largest city in
the Mediterranean world to an extent unparalleled since the end of the Republican
period
Sujet(s) : Vie urbaine -- Rome (Italie) -- Antiquité
Aristocratie -- Rome (Italie) -- Antiquité
Pouvoir (sciences sociales) -- Rome (Italie) -- Antiquité
Rome (Italie) -- Jusqu'à 476
Indice(s) Dewey :
937.06 (23e éd.) = Histoire antique - Péninsule italienne - 0031 av J.-C.-0476 ap J.-C.
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198835073. - ISBN 0198835078
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46756798g
Notice n° :
FRBNF46756798
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; Aristocrats, imperial institutions, and the topography of power
; Building Late Antique Rome ; Emperors and senators in the Roman forum ; Festivals,
ceremonies, and the commemmoration of power ; The redefinition of religious life
; Senatorial houses as centres of power ; Aristocratic power and politics in the
domestic sphere ; Conclusion.
