This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome—one of the most important European cities in the medieval imagination—in late Middle En

This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome—one of the most important European cities in the medieval imagination—in late Middle En

At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was a city in transitionparts ancient, medieval, and modern; pagan and Christianand as it emerged from its medieval d

The Balkans offer classic examples of how empires imagine they can transform themselves into national states (Ottomanism) and how nation-states project themselv

At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a “crumblin