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.
Author(s): Joseph Huffman
Series: The Early Medieval North Atlantic
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 280
City: Amsterdam
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
