MS 6182: ROME (Thursday 9:00 10:40, Seminar, 2 credits)

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1 MS 6182: ROME (Thursday 9:00 10:40, Seminar, 2 credits) Instructor: Marianne Sághy (Room FT 506) Tel E mail: saghym@ceu.hu Office Hours: by appointment Course description: this multidisciplinary course introduces students into the key problems of the transformation of Rome from late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages. It presents the evolution of the city from the temple of the world to the holy city of Christendom and follows up the construction of the concept of Rome. It also examines the dynamics of power and interaction between the papacy and the secular traditions of the Urbs aeterna. Learning outcomes: the course teaches students to locate, synthesize and critically evaluate literature in a broad context and to approach from the perspective of different disciplines: political history, urbanism, religion, cultural history, anthropology and art history. Students taking this course will be equipped not only with a significant quantity of information but also with an important theoretical apparatus for the study of a particular human community endowed with a universal symbolic meaning. They will be able to efficiently integrate theories, primary and secondary data, and advance an argument that is compelling, consistent and well supported by relevant evidence. I. The Transformation of Urbs Roma in Late Antiquity Compulsory reading: Michelle R. Salzman, The Christianization of Sacred Time and Sacred Space. The Transformations of Urbs Roma in Late Antiquity. Ed. W. V. Harris. Portsmouth, Rhode Island: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement XXX, 1999, pp Robert A. Markus, How on Earth Could Places Become Holy? Origins of the Christian Idea of Holy Places. Journal of Early Christian Studies 2 (1994): John R. Curran, Pagan City and Christian Capital. Rome in the Fourth Century. Oxford: University Press, 2000, pp Richard Krautheimer, Rome. Profile of a City, Princeton: Princeton University Press, (select capters) Optional reading: András Alföldi, The Conversion of Constantine and Pagan Rome, Oxford. University Press, 1969.Michelle R. Salzman, On Roman Time: The Codex Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, pp Robert A. Markus, The End of Ancient Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, S.N.C. Lieu D. Monserrat, From Constantine To Julian, Pagan and Byzantine views. London: Routledge, 1996.

2 II. The Holy City of the Apostles Compulsory reading: Marianne Sághy, Scinditur in partes populus: Pope Damasus and the Martyrs of Rome. Early Medieval Europe 9, 2000/ 3: Epigrammata Damasiana, ed. A. Ferrua, Rome: Pontifical Institute of Biblical Archaeology, Dennis E. Trout, Damasus and the Invention of Early Christian Rome. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33:3 (2003): Optional reading: Carlos Galvao Sobrinho, Funerary Epigraphy and the Spread of Christianity in the West. Athenaeum 83 (1995): III. Shrines, Pilgrims, Politics Compulsory reading: Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, Eds. Kate Cooper Julia Hillner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 (select essay) Kate Cooper, The Martyr, the Matrona and the Bishop: the Matron Lucina and the Politics of Martyr cult in Fifth and Sixth Century Rome, Early Medieval Europe, 8/3 (1999), pp Walter Ullmann, The Growth of the Papal Government in the Middle Ages: a Study in the Relation of Clerical to Lay Power. London, Macmillan, Harry O. Maier, The Topography of Heresy and Dissent in Late Fourth Century Rome. Historia XLIV/2 (1995): Dennis E. Trout, The Verse Epitaph(s) of Petronius Probus: Competitive Commemoration in Late Fourth Century Rome. New England Classical Journal 28 (2001) Optional reading: Michael Roberts, Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs. The Liber Peristephanon of Prudentius. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, (select parts) IV. The Fall of Rome Compulsory reading: Jean Doignon, Oracles, prophéties, «on dit» sur la chute de Rome ( ). Les réactions de Jérôme et d Augustin. Revue des Études augustiniennes 36 (1990) Henry Chadwick, Oracles of the End in the Conflict of Paganism and Christianity in the Fourth Century. Mémorial André Jean Festugière. Ed. E Lucchesi H. D. Saffrey. Geneva : Patrick Cramer, 1984, pp Jerome, Letter 127 to Principia on the death of Marcella Michael Costambeys, Burial topography and the Power of the Church in Fifth and Sixth Century Rome, Papers of the British School at Rome, 69 (2001), pp Optional reading: Bertrand Lançon, Rome in late antiquity : everyday life and urban change, AD New York : Routledge, V. The Fall of Rome as an Historical Problem Compulsory reading: Bryan Ward Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 (select chapters) Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and Barbarians. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006 (select chapters) Helen Saradi Mendelovici, Christian Attitudes Towards Pagan Monuments in Late Antiquity, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 44 (1990), pp Optional reading: Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity. Cambridge, MA.:Harvard University Press, Walter Goffart, Rome's fall and after. London: Hambledon Press 1989.

3 Stephen Williams Gerard Friell, The Rome that did not fall : the survival of the East in the fifth century. London : Routledge, VI. Byzantine Rome: Gregory the Great Compulsory reading: Robert A. Markus, Gregory the Great and his World. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997 (select chapters) Antony.T. Thacker, Memorializing Gregory the Great: the Origin and Transmission of a Papal cult in the Seventh and Early eighth Centuries, Early Medieval Europe, 7 (1998), pp J. McCulloh, From Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Continuity and Change in Papal relic Policy from the 6 th to the 8 th Century in E. Dassmann and K. Suso Frank (eds), Pietas: Festschrift für Bernhard Kötting (Münster, 1980), pp Robert Coates Stephens, Dark Age Architecture in Rome, Papers of the British School of Rome 65 (1997), pp Optional reading: John Richards, The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages ( ).London, Mcmillan, VII. Carolingian Rome Compulsory reading: Thomas F. X. Noble, The Republic of St. Peter: The Birth of the Papal State, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (selections). D. H. Miller, The Roman Revolution of the Eighth Century: A Study of the Ideological Background of the Papal Separation from Byzantium and the Alliance with the Franks, Mediaeval Studies 36 (1974), pp Beat Brenk, Spolia from Constantine to Charlemagne: aestethics versus ideology, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 41 (1987), pp Paolo Delogu, The Rebirth of Rome in the 8th and 9th Centuries, in R. Hodges and B. Hobley (eds), The Rebirth of Towns in the West AD , London: CBAR, 1988, pp Optional reading: Luitpold Wallach, Alcuin's Epitaph of Hadrian I: A Study In Carolingian Epigraphy. The American Journal of Philology 72 (1951), pp J. Story, Charlemagne's black marble: the origins of the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I. Papers of the British School at Rome 73 (2005), pp I. Ottonian Rome Compulsory reading: D. Warner, Ideals and Action in the Reign of Otto III, Journal of Medieval History, 25 (1999), pp Peter Llewellyn, Rome in the Dark Ages. London, Routledge, pp Conrad Leyser, Charisma in the Archive: Roman Monasteries and the Memory of Gregory the Great, c. 870 c.940, in Le Scritture dai Monasteri, eds F. De Rubeis and W. Pohl (Rome, 2003), pp Optional reading: John Osborne, The Roman catacombs in the Middle Ages, Papers of the British School at Rome, 53 (1985), pp Gerd Althoff, Otto III. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, VIII. The Twelfth Century Renaissance Compulsory reading: The Marvels of Rome : Mirabilia Urbis Romae. Ed. Tr. Francis Morgan Nichols. New York : Italica Press, Debra J. Birch, Pilgrimage to Rome in the Middle Ages. Continuity and change. London: Woodbridge, 1998, pp. 1 37,

4 Optional reading: Patrick Geary, Furta sacra. Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages, Revised edition with new preface. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Michael Greenhalgh, The Survival of Roman Antiquities in the Middle Ages. London: Duckworth, IX. The Medieval Papacy Compulsory reading: D. Jasper H. Fuhrmann, Papal Letters in the Early Middle Ages. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, Robert Brentano, Optional reading: Rome before Avignon : A social history of thirteenth century Rome. Berkeley Los Angeles, New York: University of California Press, Basic Books, II. The Holy Year of 1300 Compulsory reading: Herbert L. Kessler Johanna Zacharias, Rome 1300 : on the path of the pilgrim.new Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, Rome : the pilgrim's dream. Ed. Gloria Fossi. Texts by Jacques Le Goff et al. Firenze : Giunti, Arsenio Frugoni, Il Giubileo di Bonifacio VIII, Bari: Laterza, Optional reading: The Bull Unam Sanctam by Boniface VIII unam.html X. The Idea of Rome in the Fourteenth Century Compulsory reading: Jennifer Summit, Topography as Historiography: Petrarch, Chaucer, and the Making of Medieval Rome, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2): Arnold Esch, Rome entre le Moyen Age et la Renaissance. Stuttgart : J. Thorbecke, Petrarca politico. Atti del Convegno (Roma Arezzo, marzo 2004). Comitato nazionale VII centenario della nascita di Francesco Petrarca. Roma : Istituto Palazzo Borromini, The Petrarchan grotto: petrarch.freeservers.com Optional reading: Francesco Petrarca: Invectives. Ed. David Marsh. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, Assessment is based on the student s active participation in the work of the seminar and on the quality of three short (max words) essays written during the term. The course is shaped in a way as to ensure that students have the opportunity to show their abilities in a range of different ways: in class oral presentation (30%), discussion (15%) and dialog (15%), essays (40%). The first essay is a critique of a chosen book on Rome, the two others are on a chosen historical problematic. Essay Questions 1. To what extent are the changes in the burial practices in Rome indicators of deeper transformations of the social, economic, cultural, political scenario of the Western world? 2. Discuss the papal relic policy in the early Middle Age in relation to the development of their spiritual and territorial authority.

5 3. What can the patterns of pilgrimage to Rome tell us about the social and political dynamics of early medieval Europe? 4. Does Constantine s building programme in Rome shed any light on his own ideology and his relations with the city? 5. What justification had Rome for its claim upon the bodies of the apostles Peter and Paul? 6. By the fifth century Rome was clearly a Christian city. Discuss. 7. How important was the impact of Gregory the Great on the city of Rome? 8. How Byzantine was Rome in the seventh and eighth centuries? 9. Discuss the impact of eastern monastic ideals on Rome s religious life between the 4 th and the 5 th centuries. 10. To what extent can we still speak of a Carolingian renaissance in Rome? 11. How successful was Otto III in establishing Rome as the political centre of his renewed Roman empire? 12. What impact did the development of the popes power have on Rome s economic structures? for PhD and MA students Topical elective