Book contents
- Rome in the Eighth Century
- British School at Rome Studies
- Rome in the Eighth Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Plates
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 Rome in 700: ‘Constantinople on the Tiber’
- 2 Pope John VII servus sanctae Mariae
- 3 Clerics, Monks and Pilgrims
- 4 ‘The City of the Church’
- 5 The Chapel of Theodotus in Santa Maria Antiqua
- 6 Pope Zacharias and the Lateran Palace
- 7 Rome and the Franks
- 8 Paul I
- 9 Hadrian I dux Dei
- 10 Leo III and Charlemagne
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section
7 - Rome and the Franks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2020
Book contents
- Rome in the Eighth Century
- British School at Rome Studies
- Rome in the Eighth Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Plates
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 Rome in 700: ‘Constantinople on the Tiber’
- 2 Pope John VII servus sanctae Mariae
- 3 Clerics, Monks and Pilgrims
- 4 ‘The City of the Church’
- 5 The Chapel of Theodotus in Santa Maria Antiqua
- 6 Pope Zacharias and the Lateran Palace
- 7 Rome and the Franks
- 8 Paul I
- 9 Hadrian I dux Dei
- 10 Leo III and Charlemagne
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section
Summary
Surveys political events in the second half of the eighth century as Rome, in the face of continued Lombard attacks, shifts its political ties from the emperor in Constantinople to the Franks, culminating with the coronation of the Frankish king Charlemagne as Roman ‘emperor’ in December 800
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- Rome in the Eighth CenturyA History in Art, pp. 159 - 170Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020