Friday, October 2, 2015 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
51 Hillhouse Ave., Room 101
FRIDAY, October 2nd, from 12 PM to 1:15 PM in 51 Hillhouse Ave., Room 101.
Dr. Margaret M. Andrews, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University, will be presenting “The Forum of Nerva in Rome: The Preservation of an Imperial Monument in the Christian City.” Please see below for more details:
The Forum of Nerva in Rome: The Preservation of an Imperial Monument in the Christian City
Although Rome’s political and religious institutions “fell,” the city’s monuments still stood as fixed reminders of them for centuries. How were these structures incorporated into the new urban configuration that Rome assumed during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages? Did their meaning remain static, fixed in the past, or did it shift within the new religious and political contexts that gradually emerged during these periods? I examine the structural and ideological history of the Forum of Nerva in Rome to show not only how the imperial structure remained an integral part of Rome’s early medieval physical and religious landscapes but also that its original ideological program remained largely unchanged, only recast within a new Christian framework.