The Evolution of the Lateran: From the<i>Domus</i>to the Episcopal Complex

Liverani, Paolo

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“…What is true of the historiography of Rome's topography in general is no less true of our area. The research synthesised in Colini's magistral study of the Caelian (1944) and its updates (Pavolini 2006;Consalvi 2009), and further explored by Liverani (1999;2020), has been augmented by excellent studies of individual monuments and locations (Krautheimer 1937;Colini 1955;Pavolini 1993;Englen 2003;Guidobaldi 2004;Brandt & Guidobaldi 2008;Pavolini & Palazzo 2013;Englen et al 2015), which have also proven essential in our work.…”

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The changing face of the eastern Caelian in the 1st–4th centuries AD:

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Ravasi

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Roman Urbanism in Italy

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Situating Rome within wider debates on Classical Urbanism is notoriously challenging. It cannot be ignored; the city was the point of reference for a civilization built on urban centres. Rome's resilient power to absorb, adapt and re-present itself underpinned its longevity. Yet while this rightly ensures Rome has a profound significance in discussions of the Classical and Late Antique city, the pulse that sustained the urbs Roma aeterna was also very much its own. No urban centre in the Mediterranean world could match its sustained dynamism, and as Purcell (2007) observed in his discussion of the horti of peri-urban Rome, the drivers that underpinned its evolution were often particular to the circumstances of the city itself. The European Research Council-funded 'Rome Transformed' Project https://research.ncl.ac.uk/rometrans/ (grant agreement No. 835271, Haynes et al. 2020;2021; seeks to understand better this dynamism and its implications, through detailed study of a neighbourhood on the periphery of the Late Republican city, outside Rome's pomerium, which went on to become the centre of western Christendom for a millennium. The project's focus is on the eastern Caelian, and most particularly, on the eight formative centuries that ran from the Principate of Augustus to the Pontificate of Leo III. This paper concentrates on the first four of those centuries.Before proceeding, we would argue that the word 'transformation' needs to be reclaimed. In one of the biggest debates in the study of Classical Urbanism, discussion of the 'end' of ancient cities, the term has become baggage laden. For some, notably Ward-Perkins (2005, 4) it is too neutral to apply to what befell Rome and her empire. While for others, amongst them participants in the European Science Foundation's wide ranging 'Transformation of the Roman World Project' (https://brill.com/display/serial/TRW), it seems the best term to cover a raft of

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The changing face of the eastern Caelian in the 1st–4th centuries AD:

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Rome, city of: 7. Severan and third century

Lusnia¹

2022

The Encyclopedia of Ancient History

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At the beginning of the Severan period, Rome was recovering from plague outbreaks and a fire that had done extensive damage to the city's center. Major areas of the city saw both new construction and restoration work from 193 to 275 ce . The building program of L. Septimius Severus was the most wide‐ranging in the city during this period and covered reforms to city administration. By the end of the third century, the city had several new features, including four imperial bath complexes, three major temples, a camp for the equestrian guard, and a defensive wall circuit.

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Roman Books and the Papal Library in the Early Middle Ages

McKitterick¹

2023

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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This paper offers a fresh appraisal of the problems of the existence, location and contents of the papal library, and the associated problems of Roman script and Roman book production in the early Middle Ages. The palaeography and codicology of books from Rome, and books possibly produced in Rome, between the sixth and the ninth centuries, are reassessed in the light of current scholarship. This includes a discussion of the possible loss of Roman books originally written on papyrus, and of books in both Latin and Greek. The current archaeological evidence relating to a Lateran library and its location is considered. The implications of the evidence relating to the papal scrinium, archive and library are discussed, with particular reference to the proceedings of the Lateran Council of 649. It is argued that these records actually provide important evidence for the contents and use of the Lateran library in the early Middle Ages. The paper proposes that the papal library had a crucial function as well as a symbolic role in the early Middle Ages as a repository of orthodox and authoritative texts.

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The Evolution of the Lateran: From theDomusto the Episcopal Complex

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