Ferdinand Gregorovius Books

This edition of Volume 3 of Ferdinand Gregorovius' History of the City of Rome in the Middle includes Book Five and Six and covers from the Carolingian Period until the year 1000. It treats the relations of the Emperor and Pope to Rome; the death of Pipin; Bernard and Lothar, Kings of Italy; the Saracen invasion of the Mediterranean and their Kingdom of Sicily; the churches built by Paschalis I; Popes Leo IV, Nicholas I and John VIII; Emperors Lewis II, Charles the Fat, Lambert and Arnulf; the devastation created by the Saracens; the fortunes of the monastery of Farfa; Cluniac Reform of the monasteries; the reign of Alberic; the Charter of Otto I; Crescentius; revolts in Rome; the growing decadence of the papacy; legal administration in Rome; the general decline in learning in Rome; the regions, legends and ruins of Rome. This edition is based on the second revised edition of the English translation and matches the original page-for-page - and footnote-for-footnote - for accuracy of citation and is entirely reset for modern readability. Volume III includes an introduction to Gregorovius and his work by David S. Chambers of the Warburg Institute, London. It is available in both paperback and on fully-searchable CD-ROM.

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