DARK AGE ROME: TOWARDS AN INTERACTIVE TOPOGRAPHY
Kate Cooper|Julia Hillner|Conrad Leyser
This paper represents a report on work in progress at the University of Manchester’s Centre for Late Antiquity. The goal our research is to open new chapter late ancient and Early Medieval Rome, through systematic collation diffusion relatively neglected sources, particular Roman gesta martyrum . They are not usually considered as source social history city, because their transparently tendentious character. Yet best witness ebullient laity, whose patronage ecclesiastical hierarchy continued depend. We hope make more widely accessible, facilitate cross-referencing with other kinds source; method combine tools traditional scholarship contemporary digital technologies, operation which we briefly describe here.
Late Antique Archaeology