Memory and the Construction of City Identity
Veronica West-Harling
The departure point of this book was the Roman past as a common ground in all three cities. This is confirmed through anthroponymy, law and notarial practices, art, titles, status, topography, lifestyle. There preservation construction past, based on <italic>Romanitas</italic>. But there much present. In Rome made up idealized Romanness Carolingians, veneration St Peter by pilgrims. Venice it created John Deacon cult Mark. Ravenna’s interest its without strong saint, makes less successful present identity. Meanwhile, for inhabitants Rome, remain strongly intertwined outsiders’ papacy than reminding power everyday topography visual presence <italic>Romanitas</italic>
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