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R omana urbs : levels of R oman and imperial identity in the city of R ome
Author(s) -
Gantner Clemens
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
early medieval europe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1468-0254
pISSN - 0963-9462
DOI - 10.1111/emed.12082
Subject(s) - prestige , identity (music) , politics , empire , roman empire , state (computer science) , power (physics) , relation (database) , history , perception , ancient history , rank (graph theory) , classics , art , political science , law , philosophy , aesthetics , epistemology , linguistics , mathematics , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , database , computer science , combinatorics
This contribution investigates how the urban R oman identity of the popes and the papacy developed in relation to the R omanness of the R oman empire of the eighth century and the perception of a ‘state’ ( res publica, but also imperium ). It then shows examples of how the city of R ome itself was used and perceived in papal writings of the time and how all these concepts were consciously altered by the papacy in the course of the eighth century to enhance R ome's ecclesiastical and political prestige as well as its secular power.