The Moving City

Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome

Ida Ostenberg, Simon Malmberg, Jonas Bjørnebye

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781472534491
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome focusses on movements in the ancient city of Rome, exploring the interaction between people and monuments. Representing a novel approach to the Roman cityscape and culture, and reflecting the shift away from the traditional study of single monuments into broader analyses of context and space, the volume reveals both how movement adds to our understanding of ancient society, and how the movement of people and goods shaped urban development. Covering a wide range of people, places, sources, and times, the volume includes a survey of Republican, imperial, and late antique movement, triumphal processions of conquering generals, seditious, violent movement of riots and rebellion, religious processions and rituals and the everyday movements of individual strolls or household errands. By way of its longue durée, dense location and the variety of available sources, the city of ancient Rome offers a unique possibility to study movements as expressions of power, ritual, writing, communication, mentalities, trade, and – also as a result of a massed populace – violent outbreaks and attempts to keep order. The emerging picture is of a bustling, lively society, where cityscape and movements are closely interactive and entwined.

Table of contents

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• Title
• Contents 
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction Ida Östenberg, Simon Malmberg and Jonas Bjørnebye
• Part 1 Elite Movement
• 1. Power Walks: Aristocratic Escorted Movements in Republican Rome Ida Östenberg
• 2. ‘Moving through Town’: Foreign Dignitaries in Rome in the Middle and Late Republic Richard Westall
• 3. Livia on the Move Lovisa Brännstedt
• 4. Fast Movement through the City: Ideals, Stereotypes and City Planning Monica Hellström
• 5. Veiled Visibility: Morality, Movement and Sacred Virginity in Late Antiquity Sissel Undheim
• Part 2 Literary Movement
• 6. Rolling Thunder: Movement, Violence and Narrative in the History of the Late Roman Republic Isak Hammar
• 7. ‘A Shouting and Bustling on All Sides’ (Hor. Sat. 1.9.77–8): Everyday Justice in the Streets of Republican Rome Anthony Corbeill
• 8. Urban Flux: Varro’s Rome-in-progress Diana Spencer
• 9. Augustan Literary Tours: Walking and Reading the City Timothy M. O’Sullivan
• Part 3 Processional Movement
• 10. Moving In and Moving Out: Ritual Movements between Rome and its Suburbium Kristine Iara
• 11. Augustus’ Triumphal and Triumph-like Returns Carsten Hjort Lange
• 12. Rite of Passage: On Ceremonial Movements and Vicarious Memories (Fourth Century ce) Gitte Lønstrup Dal Santo
• 13. The Laetaniae Septiformes of Gregory I, S. Maria Maggiore and Early Marian Cult in Rome Margaret M. Andrews
• 14. Movement and the Hero: Following St Lawrence in Late Antique Rome Michael Mulryan
• Part 4 Movement and Urban Form
• 15. Towards a History of Mobility in Ancient Rome (300 bce to 100 ce) Ray Laurence
• 16. ‘Ships are Seen Gliding Swiftly along the Sacred Tiber’: The River as an Artery of Urban Movement and Development Simon Malmberg
• 17. Monuments and Images of the Moving City Anne-Marie Leander Touati
• 18. Mithraic Movement: Negotiating Topography and Space in Late Antique Rome Jonas Bjørnebye
• Notes
• Bibliography
• List of Abbreviations
• Index
• Copyright