Rome across Time and Space Bolgia McKitterick Osborne Hardback 9780521192170

Rome across Time and SpaceCultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas, c.5001400\nAuthor(s): Claudia Bolgia, Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521192170, 978-0521192170\nSynopsis\nMedieval Rome was uniquely important, both as a physical city and as an idea with immense cultural capital, encapsulating the legacy of the ancient Empire, the glorious world of the martyrs and the triumph of Christian faith. Rome across Time and Space explores these twin dimensions of 'place' and 'idea' and analyses Rome's role in the transmission of culture throughout the Middle Ages. Ranging widely over liturgy, architecture, sculpture and textual history, the authors focus on the mutual enrichment derived from the exchange of ideas and illuminate how cultural exchanges between Rome and its 'neighbours' (Byzantium, Italy, England and France), and within Rome (between Ancient an.