Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308 » (1st Edition)

In this classic study, surveying the city's life from Christian Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Richard Krautheimer focuses on monuments of art and architecture as they reflect the historical events, the ideological currents, and the meaning Rome held for its contemporaries. Lavishly illustrated, this book tells an intriguing story in which the heritage of antiquity intertwines with the living presence of Christianity. Written by one of the great art historians of our time, it offers a profile of the Eternal City unlike any drawn in the past or likely to be drawn in the future."Krautheimer was never (or only rarely) interested in studying heavily researched subjects, in valorizing what was already valorized, in reconquering what had long been conquered and reconquered. He was at heart a pioneer, a discoverer, a master of uncharted scholarly terrain in an age when so many things art historical were thought to be understood."--From the preface by Marvin Trachtenberg

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Krautheimer's book shows us what history and art history can be when they are truly combined.

List of Illustrations ix Foreword xvii Marvin Trachtenberg Preface xxiii Part I Image and Reality CHAPTER ONE Rome and Constantine 3
CHAPTER TWO The Christianization of Rome and the Romanization of Christianity 33
CHAPTER THREE The Times of Gregory the Great 59
CHAPTER FOUR Rome between East and West 89
CHAPTER FIVE Renewal and Renascence: The Carolingian Age 109
CHAPTER SIX Realities, Ideologies, and Rhetoric 143
CHAPTER SEVEN The New Rebirth of Rome: The Twelfth Century 161
CHAPTER EIGHT The Thirteenth Century: An Epilogue 203
Part II Forma Urbis Romae Medievalis CHAPTER NINE The Evidence 231
CHAPTER TEN The Inheritance 237
CHAPTER ELEVEN Growth of the Borgo 261
CHAPTER TWELVE The Abitato 271
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Houses, Towers. and Mansions 289
CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Disabitato and the Lateran 311
APPENDIX Chronological List of Popes 327
Bibliographical Note 329
Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works 331
Notes 335
INDEX I Places and Subjects 373
INDEX II People 385