The Subura of Rome : Landscape and Ideology from the Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages

Andrews, Margaret M.

Cambridge University Press（2026/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 350 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009745819

Full Description

The ancient neighborhood of the Subura in Rome was held together by the shape of its terrain and the urban thoroughfares that connected the city's center and periphery. In this study, Margaret Andrews traces the Subura's urban development from the Iron Age through the Early Middle Ages. Using both written and material evidence, she argues that the valley was imbued with a social ideology that focused on the virtuous woman. This ideology was reconstituted and refocused over the centuries by Rome's most powerful leaders - senators, emperors, and bishops - and the Subura's residents themselves. The neighborhood's physical fabric was transformed in each period, as monumental and mundane structures were recombined in ways that blended past and present. Andrews demonstrates how the Subura serves as a compelling case study of urban evolution. She shows how socially constructed concepts are inscribed into urban environments and how the social processes through which these concepts were embedded evolved over time.

Contents

Introduction; 1. The origins of the Subura's sacred landscape; 2. Imperial intervention: Augustus in the Subura; 3. Imperial intervention redux: domitian in the Subura; 4. A snapshot in the Subura in the high empire; 5. Inside out in the fourth century; 6. From matron to Madonna in the fifth century; 7. A new coherence in the sixth and seventh centuries; 8. Salus populi romani: the Subura's new landscape in the early middle ages; Conclusion; References; Index.