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Rome Across Time and Space : Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas, c. 500-1400

The volume originates from an international conference that Bolgia conceived and organised in 2008 (www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/91/). Bolgia co-edited the volume and wrote the introduction, addressing the motivations for the conference, including its broad chronological (500-1400) and geographical span (the Mediterranean, Central and Northern Europe as well as Byzantium and the Near East). The book is the first to revise the idea of Rome as a ‘centre’ of exchange with ‘peripheral’ areas, reading it instead as a ‘node’, thus revealing how cultural exchanges worked as catalysts for change, shaping the medieval city and helping to construct the medieval idea of Rome itself.