The Subura of Rome: Landscape and Ideology from the Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009745819)

The ancient neighborhood of the Subura in Rome was held together by the shape of its terrain and the urban thoroughfares that connected the city's center and periphery. In this study, Margaret Andrews traces the Subura's urban development from the Iron Age through the Early Middle Ages. Using both written and material evidence, she argues that the valley was imbued with a social ideology that focused on the virtuous woman. This ideology was reconstituted and refocused over the centuries by Rome's most powerful leaders - senators, emperors, and bishops - and the Subura's residents themselves. The neighborhood's physical fabric was transformed in each period, as monumental and mundane structures were recombined in ways that blended past and present. Andrews demonstrates how the Subura serves as a compelling case study of urban evolution. She shows how socially constructed concepts are inscribed into urban environments and how the social processes through which these concepts were embedded evolved over time.

Author: Margaret M. Andrews
ISBN-10: 1009745816
ISBN-13: 9781009745819
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2026
Pages: 462
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.23lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.00d