The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient RomeIda Ostenberg, Simon Malmberg, Jonas Bjørnebye The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome focusses on movements in the ancient city of Rome, exploring the interaction between people and monuments. Representing a novel approach to the Roman cityscape and culture, and reflecting the shift away from the traditional study of single monuments into broader analyses of context and space, the volume reveals both how movement adds to our understanding of ancient society, and how the movement of people and goods shaped urban development. Covering a wide range of people, places, sources, and times, the volume includes a survey of Republican, imperial, and late antique movement, triumphal processions of conquering generals, seditious, violent movement of riots and rebellion, religious processions and rituals and the everyday movements of individual strolls or household errands. By way of its longue durée, dense location and the variety of available sources, the city of ancient Rome offers a unique possibility to study movements as expressions of power, ritual, writing, communication, mentalities, trade, and – also as a result of a massed populace – violent outbreaks and attempts to keep order. The emerging picture is of a bustling, lively society, where cityscape and movements are closely interactive and entwined. |
Contents
Ideals Stereotypes and City Planning | |
Morality Movement and Sacred Virginity in Late | |
Walking and Reading the City | |
Ritual Movements between Rome and | |
On Ceremonial Movements and Vicarious Memories | |
Following St Lawrence in Late Antique Rome | |
The River as | |
Monuments and Images of the Moving City | |
Negotiating Topography and Space in Late Antique | |
Bibliography | |
Movement Violence and Narrative in the History of | |
Everyday Justice | |
Varros Romeinprogress | |
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The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome Ida Östenberg,Simon Malmberg,Jonas Bjørnebye No preview available - 2015 |
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