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. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Prologue 1. Romano-Germanic Cologne (58 B.C.-A.D. 456) 2. Rupture or Continuity? 3. The Imperial Project Redux 4. The Age of Imperial Bishops I 5. The Age of Imperial Bishops II 6. The Great Pivot 7. The Rhineland Metropolis Emerges 8. From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis Select Bibliography Index

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