The Aurelian Wall and the Refashioning of

This book explores the relationship between the city of Rome and the Aurelian Wall during the six centuries following its construction in the 270s AD, a period when the city changed and contracted almost beyond recognition, as it evolved from imperial capital into the spiritual center of Western Christendom. The Wall became the single most prominent feature in the urban landscape, a dominating presence which came bodily to incarnate the political, legal, administrative and religious boundaries of urbs Roma, even as it reshaped both the physical contours of the city as a whole and the mental geographies of 'Rome' that prevailed at home and throughout the known world. With the passage of time, the circuit took on a life of its own as the embodiment of Rome's past greatness, a cultural and architectural legacy that dwarfed the quotidian realities of the post-imperial city as much as it shaped them.

List of abbreviations	p. vii
List of figures	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Toward an architectural history of the Aurelian Wall, from its beginnings through the ninth century	p. 12
The basics: an overview	p. 12
Aurelian's Wall	p. 17
Honorius'Wall	p. 32
The fifth and sixth centuries	p. 48
The early-medieval renaissance of the Aurelian Wall	p. 63
Planning, building, rebuilding, and maintenance: the logistical dynamics of a (nearly) interminable project	p. 71
The planning and placement of the Wall	p. 72
Building the Wall	p. 87
Subsequent history	p. 100
The Wall and the refashioning of the urban administration	p. 102
Motives, meaning, and context: the Aurelian Wall and the late Roman state	p. 110
The motives for Aurelian's Wall	p. 111
The meaning and message of Aurelian's Wall	p. 116
New walls, old realities, and the changing face of the late-antique city	p. 123
Honorian Rome and Celestial Jerusalem	p. 137
Sedes Petri; caput mundi? Rivals of Rome and the imitation of the Aurelian Wall	p. 155
The city, the suburbs, and the Wall: the rise of a topographical institution	p. 160
Urbs and suburbium	p. 161
The immediate topographical impact of the Wall, local	p. 163
The immediate topographical impact of the Wall, regional	p. 169
The immediate topographical impact of the Wall, citywide	p. 185
Big walls, small town: Rome after empire	p. 196
The topographical Nachleben of the Aurelian Wall	p. 199
Sacred geography, interrupted	p. 209
Muros dilatavit, pomerio addidit: the immuring of the pomerium	p. 209
The Wall, the law, and the definition of urban space in the fourth century	p. 213
Spheres of sacrality and the circumscription of Roma Christiana	p. 217
The Wall, stational liturgy, and the boundaries of the urban church	p. 225
In urbe, extra muros	p. 230
The decline of the suburbium and the rise of the world's largest reliquary	p. 235
The Wall and the "Republic of St. Peter"	p. 241
The Aurelian Wall and the post-Roman "state," from Justinian to Charlemagne	p. 241
The Aurelian Wall and Pope Hadrian's Rome: the home front	p. 250
The Aurelian Wall and the international public of Pope Hadrian's Rome	p. 260
Old walls don't die, they just fade away...	p. 271
Conclusion	p. 279
Appendices
Numerical data	p. 283
The fourth century revisited: the problem of Maxentius	p. 285
The post-Honorian additions to the Porta Appia and other fifth- and sixth-century construction	p. 292
The Aurelian Wall and the refashioning of the western tip of the Campus Martius	p. 304
The Pons Agrippae and the Pons Aureli: a tale of two bridges	p. 3101
Bibliography	p. 315
Index	p. 353
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