Rome Re-Imagined

Twelfth-Century Jews, Christians and Muslims Encounter the Eternal City

• Author(s): Louis I. Hamilton, Stefano Riccioni,
• Publisher: BRILL
• Pages: 159
• ISBN_13: 9789004225282
  ISBN_10: 9004225285
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / General , History / General ,

Description:... This collection examines the image of Rome through Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Persian descriptions of the eternal city. Placing the twelfth-century renaissance into a Mediterranean context. The city of Rome is revealed as a multi-vocal object of desire and a contested ideal.