The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome

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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 dure, 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.

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In its fashionable focus on societys experience of space [The Moving City] is a product of its time. It is an enjoyable read, successfully presenting a picture of a bustling, lively society, where cityscape and movements are closely interactive and entwined. * Classics For All Reviews *
The range of papers and topics within this coherent volume is impressive and should interest a similarly wide range of researchers, as well as providing useful material for undergraduate classes on subjects as diverse as Augustan poetry, late Republican politics, the supply of Rome and early Christian Rome. * Journal of Roman Studies *
A well-thought out, versatile and inspiring study on "movement in the city". * Gymnasium (Bloomsbury translation) *
Impressively show[s] the manifold possibilities and opportunities that lie in the connections between space and performance. * H-Soz-Kult (Bloomsbury Translation) *
The monuments of ancient Rome, rooted in time and place, impress us with their calm stolidity. This rich collection of essays successfully reminds us that they were the backdrop to a city in permanent motion from the stately processions of ambassadors and empresses, to the regular ebb and flow of traffic on the Tiber, and to the chaos of a rampaging crowd. -- Bryan Ward-Perkins, University of Oxford, UK
Particularly noteworthy are the contributions of A. Corbeill, C.H.Lange, M. Andrews and G. Lnstrup Dal Santo, each of which illuminates movements in the physical, mental and/or literary space of Rome. * Historische Zeitschrift (Bloomsbury Translation) *

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Ida stenberg is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Simon Malmberg is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Jonas Bjrnebye held the Stein Erik Hagen Chair in Cross Disciplinary Studies at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, University of Oslo, Norway, and is now an independent scholar.