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1 - Rome in 700: ‘Constantinople on the Tiber’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2020

John Osborne
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Ottawa
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Surveys the physical, social, religious, cultural and demographic changes which take place in the sixth and seventh centuries, preparing the stage for the detailed study from 700 CE onwards. The intention is to demonstrate that Rome in 700 was a ‘Byzantine’ city, a ‘Constantinople on the Tiber’ in the phrase coined by Per Jonas Nordhagen.

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Rome in the Eighth Century
A History in Art
, pp. 1 - 21
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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