City of Saints : Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages

University of Pennsylvania Press

City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages\nby Maya Maskarinec\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Maya Maskarinec\nTitle: City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Christianity\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press\nPublication year: 2022\nISBN-13: 9781512823721\nISBN-10: 1512823724\nRRP: \u00A340.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIt was far from inevitable that Rome would emerge as the spiritual center of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages. After the move of the Empire's capital to Constantinople in the fourth century and the Gothic Wars in the sixth century, Rome was gradually depleted physically, economically, and politically. How then.