The Imperial City of Cologne: From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis (19 B.C.-1125 A.D.) (The Early Medieval North Atlantic, 2)

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. Cover 1 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Foreword 10 Historic Preservation and European Urban History 10 Prologue 14 Natural History and Prehistoric Human Habitation 14 1. Romano-Germanic Cologne (58 B.C.-A.D. 456) 18 2. Rupture or Continuity? 48 Merovingian Cologne (A.D. 456-686) 48 3. The Imperial Project Redux 76 Carolingian Cologne (686-925) 76 4. The Age of Imperial Bishops I 96 Ottonian Ducal Archbishops and Imperial Kin (925-1024) 96 5. The Age of Imperial Bishops II 128 Early Salian Archchancellors and Urban Patrons (1024-1056) 128 6. The Great Pivot 154 Herrschaft meets Gemeinde in the Pontificate of Anno II (1056-1075) 154 7. The Rhineland Metropolis Emerges 178 Herrschaft and Gemeinde during the Investiture Controversy (1075-1125) 178 8. From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis 226 The Urban History of Cologne in European Context 226 Select Bibliography 240 Index 272

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