I am happy to announce that the Companion to Rome (c. 400–c. 1050), edited by Caroline Goodson and Julia Hillner, has just been published. The volume appears with Brill in the series Brill’s Companions to European History. Caroline and Julia have accomplished a remarkable feat: two volumes, 33 chapters, and 32 contributors. Macte virtute! I am happy and honoured to be among the contributors to this opus magnum. My own contribution is Chapter 19, on religious communities in Late Antique Rome.
The rationale of the Companion to Rome: “The city of Rome had a remarkable and complex urban continuity even after antiquity and it provided a model of urban living for other cities throughout the Middle Ages. Much existing research has nevertheless focused instead on Rome as the seat of papal power or as an influential idea rather than a real place. This volume radically refocuses our attention on Rome’s inhabitants, their identities, relationships, institutions, experiences, agencies, and spaces, and on how these local aspects interacted with the city’s universal character. It also bridges two periods of the history of Rome that are typically separated, namely late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, through a unique design of mirrored essays on key themes of Rome’s urban history. This volume brings to an Anglophone audience new scholarship from scholars across Europe and America.”
Contributors are: Margaret Andrews, Shane Bobrycki, Giulia Bordi, François Bougard, Samuel Cohen, Marios Costambeys, Joseph Dyer, Clemens Gantner, Caroline Goodson, Robert Heffron, Julia Hillner, Mark Humphries, Paul Johnson, Maijastina Kahlos, Paolo Liverani, Markus Löx, Carlos Machado, Federico Marazzi, Maya Maskarinec, Silvia Orlandi, Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani, Kristina Sessa, Lucrezia Spera, Francesca Romana Stasolla, Michela Stefani, Francesca Tinti, Dennis Trout, Andrea Verardi, Massimiliano Vitiello, Giorgia Vocino, Veronica West Harling, and Sarah Whitten.
