Table of Contents

List of Maps List of Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Foreword to the English Translation Introduction: The City Between Antiquity and the Middle Ages Part 1. Maiestas Quirini: The Majecty of the Quirinal 1. Looking at the City 2. Transforming the City's Image 3. The Phoenix City 4. Urban Administration Part 2. Plebs Patresque: Plebeians and Patricians 5. The Nobility, Elite of of the Human Race 6. Tradesmen and the Elite Part 3. Religion: Religion and Religiousity 7. Ancestral Cults 8. The Expansion of Christianity Part 4. Saeculum: Worldly Concerns 9. Life and Death: Material Civilization and Mental Attitudes 10. Transforming the Calendar 11. Festivals and Entertainments 12. Education and Culture 13. The Influence of Christian Rome Conclusion Notes Chronology Guide to Further Reading Index

About the Author

Bertrand Lancon is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Valenciennes.

Reviews

"Lançon draws on precisely those passages in late antique authors that most of us try to bring out in class discussions and seminars in order to illustrate the substance of Latin late antiquity . . [It is] a lively and remarkably informative introduction to the way late Roman institutions and social conventions functioned in a city that did, after all, remain the symbolic centre of the Roman world. The real test of this volume's utility will be the classroom, and the present reviewer has not yet had the opportunity to try it out on an actual audience of undergraduates; when next he offers a survey of late antiquity, Lançon will be on the syllabus." -- Michael Kulikowski, Department of History, University of Tennessee, BMCR