My undergraduate GIS course on mapping Rome has a lot of maps, yes, but we also use @rabuntaylor.bsky.social, Katherine Rinne, and Spiro Kostof’s splendid survey book of the history of the city. 📖 www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...
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I woked on a project at the BSR called Mapping Rome, which became a look at the whole history of one urban neighbourhood (around piazza S. Caterina della Rota) and was then killed due to internecine war between the director and the (aptly-titled) vice director. The battlefield was my humble self.
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"Worked", not "woked". D'oh. Anyway I have all three volumes of Frutaz if you need anything scanned.
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Oh no! That is terrible. I am sorry! I would have loved to have seen that DH project.
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So would I have! On the plus side, I wrote my first book thanks to meeting my future patrons at the BSR, so it did work out in a way. Now, three books later, I'm writing an Oxford UP book on the urban history of Rome that is going to be compared to the Cambridge UP one, to my certain detriment.
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I can’t wait to read it!
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I can't wait to finish writing it!
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I wonder if they didn't miss an opportunity naming the book "Rome - An Urban Legend from Antiquity to the Present"…
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How does it compare to Krautheimer?
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Well, for the full update to Krautheimer you need Dey's Medieval Rome. That is the real replacement for him.
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Thank you. I had read Krautheimer several years ago. I was thinking of Wickham's Medieval Rome as a follow up.
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No, that isn’t quite archaeological enough. Dey’s is really the full update!
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Thank you very much, Dr. Bond! I deeply appreciate the guidance.
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