De Topographia Constantinopoleos

THIS NEW EDITION presents the first complete modern publication of the Latin text of the first (1561) edition of Gilles’ De Topographia Constantinopoleos, et de illius Antiquitatibus Libri Quatuor. It is published both in print and in digital format. The editor has carried over the book and chapter divisions of the English text of Pierre Gilles’ Constantinople and has matched its paragraph divisions as far as possible in a translation from Renaissance Latin for modern readers. Edited by Kimberly Byrd. Gregorovius, Ferdinand 1 History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages 1 VOLUME 1, 400-568 C.E. THIS EDITION includes a new introduction David S. Chambers of the Warburg Institute in London. BOOK ONE covers from the beginning of the 5th century to the fall of the Western Empire in 476. It treats * the description of the city, its churches and monuments * The transformation from a pagan to a Christian city * The city’s encounter with Honorius, Radagaisus, and Stilicho * The sieges of Alaric * Popes and Vandals * Saints and Emperors * Empresses and Legends. BOOK TWO includes * The career of Theodoric * The survival of Roman customs and festivals * The Jews of Rome and schism in the Catholic Church * The trial and execution of Boethius and Symmachus * Amalasuntha, Belisarius, Vitiges * Rome between the Goths and the Byzantines * Invasions by the Lombards and other Peoples * The condition of Rome at the end of the wars. C— Google Books