caa a22 4500 388041560 CHVBK 20180307125023.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199811 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/300810 doi S0075435800044166 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/300810 Coates-Stephens Robert The British School at Rome The Walls and Aqueducts of Rome in the Early Middle Ages, A.D. 500-1000 [Elektronische Daten] [Robert Coates-Stephens] Our knowledge of the city of Rome after the fall of the Western Empire is largely determined by its position as the seat of the Papacy. Historical studies are based principally upon the Liber Pontificalis and the writings of the popes themselves, while architectural and archaeological research has concentrated on the city's numerous churches, many of which for the period A.D. 500-850 are remarkably well-preserved. The best known modern syntheses in English from each field are probably Peter Llewellyn's Rome in the Dark Ages (1971) and Richard Krautheimer's Rome. Profile of a City (1980). If we look beyond the purely ecclesiastical, however, we find very little Archaeological studies of Rome's urban infrastructure—walls, roads, bridges, aqueducts, sewers, housing—tend to stop, at the latest, with the Gothic Wars of the mid-sixth century. The lack of research, and therefore lack of data, have in turn been interpreted as a sign that early medieval Rome was a city bereft of an artificial watersupply, and of the resources necessary to maintain such structures as the Aurelianic Walls. Studies of medieval urbanism have been affected by this dearth of evidence proposing, for example, settlement models with the population of the city crowded into the Tiber bend in order to obtain water. Copyright ©Robert Coats-Stephens 1998. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies Journal of Roman Studies Cambridge University Press 88(1998-11), 166-178 0075-4358 88<166 1998 88 JRS https://doi.org/10.2307/300810 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/300810 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Coates-Stephens Robert The British School at Rome NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Roman Studies Cambridge University Press 88(1998-11), 166-178 0075-4358 88<166 1998 88 JRS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge