1st Edition
The Imperial City of Cologne From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis (19 B.C.-1125 A.D.)
By Joseph Huffman
Copyright 2018
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Imperial City of Cologne: From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis (19 B.C.-1125 A.D.) is an urban history of Cologne from its imperial Roman origins as a northeastern frontier military outpost to a medieval metropolis on the German Empire's northwestern border. This first history of Cologne, available in English, challenges received notions of late Roman ethnic identities, a Dark Age... Read more
Foreword, Historic Preservation and European Urban History, Prologue, 1. Origins: Romano-Germanic Cologne (58 B.C.-A.D. 456), 2. Rupture or Continuity? Merovingian Cologne (456-686), 3. The Imperial Project Redux: Carolingian Cologne (686-925), 4. The Age of Imperial Bishops I: Ottonian Ducal Archbishops and Imperial Kin (925-1024), 5. The Age of Imperial Bishops II: Early Salian Archchancellors and Urban Patrons (1024-1056), 6. The Great Pivot: Herrschaft meets Gemeinde in the Episcopate of Anno II (1056-1075), 7. The Rhineland Metropolis Emerges: Herrschaft and Gemeinde during the Investiture Controversy (1075-1125), 8. From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis: The Urban History of Cologne in Comparative European Context, Bibliography
Biography
Joseph P. Huffman is Distinguished Professor of European History at Messiah College. He has published books, articles, and reviews in both English and German in Europe as well as in North America.
