The Making of Medieval Rome

Hendrik Dey has spent years living and teaching in Rome, where he also held a two-year Rome Prize at the American Academy. His books include The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of Imperial Rome, AD 271-855 (2011), and The Afterlife of the Roman City: Architecture and Ceremony in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (2015).

• Introduction; 1. The eternal city on the brink: Rome in 400 AD; 2. 401-552: from imperial metropolis to provincial town; 3. 552-705: Byzantine Rome; 4. 705-882: a papal 'republic of the Romans'; 5. 882-1046: the long twilight of the early middle ages; 6. 1046-1230: church reformed, senate reborn, Rome renascent; 7. 1230-1420: Barons, babylonian captivity, and black death. The apogee and agony of late medieval Rome.

'Through this refined and thorough research, Dey conveys an image of Rome which is not just a shallow background in the portrait of the pope (or of a few aristocratic families): quite the opposite, Medieval Rome is a composite mosaic of diverse social entities, each of them contributing with their individual stories to breathe its never-ending life in the lungs of the eternal city.' Paolo Tedesco, H-Soz-Kult