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Author Machado, Carlos, 1973- author.

Title Urban space and aristocratic power in late antique Rome : AD 270-535 / Carlos Machado
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 30, 2020)
Subject Power (Social sciences) -- Rome -- History
Aristocracy (Political science) -- Rome
Aristocracy (Social class) -- Rome
City and town life -- Rome
Aristocracy (Political science)
Aristocracy (Social class)
City and town life
Power (Social sciences)
SUBJECT Rome -- History -- Empire, 284-476. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115160
Subject Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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