Caroline Goodson (University of Cambridge)

Broschiertes Buch

Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy

Beschreibung

Concentrating on a period of social, economic, and political change in the Italian peninsula, Caroline Goodson demonstrates the centrality of food-growing gardens to the cultural lives and economic realities of early medieval cities, and shows how urban gardening transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values.

Autor

Caroline Goodson is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge where her research interrogates material remains alongside archival and literary records to evaluate the rise of early medieval polities in the Western Mediterranean. She was awarded the Rome Prize in 2002-3 for her doctoral research, and subsequently has been funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Foundation. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2010, her previous publications include The Rome of Pope Paschal I (817-824): Papal Power, Urban renovation, Church Rebuilding and Relic Translation (Cambridge, 2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 150mm x 228mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781108733458
• ISBN-10: 110873345X
• Artikelnr.: 70677665