Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Historic Preservation and European Urban History; Prologue; Natural History and Prehistoric Human Habitation; 1. Romano-Germanic Cologne (58 B.C.-A.D. 456); 2. Rupture or Continuity?; Merovingian Cologne (A.D. 456-686); 3. The Imperial Project Redux; Carolingian Cologne (686-925); 4. The Age of Imperial Bishops I; Ottonian Ducal Archbishops and Imperial Kin (925-1024); 5. The Age of Imperial Bishops II; Early Salian Archchancellors and Urban Patrons (1024-1056); 6. The Great Pivot
Herrschaft meets Gemeinde in the Pontificate of Anno II (1056-1075)7. The Rhineland Metropolis Emerges; Herrschaft and Gemeinde during the Investiture Controversy (1075-1125); 8. From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis; The Urban History of Cologne in European Context; Select Bibliography; Index
Summary
The Imperial City of Cologne: From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis (19 B.C.-1125 A.D.) is an urban history of Cologne from its imperial Roman origins as a northeastern frontier military outpost to a medieval metropolis on the German Empire's northwestern border. This first history of Cologne, available in English, challenges received notions of late Roman ethnic identities, a Dark Age collapse of urban life, devastating Viking and Magyar incursions, and the origins of medieval urban government.
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