Milano allo specchio. Da Costantino al Barbarossa l’autopercezione di una capitale

FOLETTI, Ivan, Irene QUADRI and Marco ROSSI. Milano allo specchio. Da Costantino al Barbarossa l’autopercezione di una capitale (Milano in the mirror. From Constantine to Barbarossa the Self-perception of a Capital). Řím: Viella, 2016, 176 pp. Études lausannoises d’histoire de l’art, 22. ISBN 978-88-6728-709-3.

Basic information

• Original name: Milano allo specchio. Da Costantino al Barbarossa l’autopercezione di una capitale
• Name (in English): Milano in the mirror. From Constantine to Barbarossa the Self-perception of a Capital
• Authors: FOLETTI, Ivan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Irene QUADRI (756 Switzerland) and Marco ROSSI (380 Italy).
• Edition: Řím, 176 pp. Études lausannoises d’histoire de l’art, 22, 2016.
• Publisher: Viella

Other information

• Original language: Italian
• Type of outcome: Editorship of professional books
• Field of Study: 60400 6.4 Arts
• Country of publisher: Italy
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/16:00092543
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-88-6728-709-3
• Keywords in English: Milan; Self-perception; Ambrose; Basilica Martyrum
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

L’autoreferenzialita' quale prisma attraverso cui leggere la Milano tardoantica e medievale e' il filo rosso sotteso ai sette saggi che compongono questo libro. Capitale dell’impero segnata dall’episcopato di Ambrogio, metropoli ecclesiastica di prim’ordine e potente Comune, la Milano medievale ha uno sviluppo eccezionale sulla lunga durata. Solo sporadicamente, pero', tale stratificazione – storica, culturale e materiale – e' stata indagata in una prospettiva di autoreferenzialita', centrale invece per la mentalita' medievale e soprattutto per una citta' come Milano, dove la tradizione diviene garante del ruolo chiave che il capoluogo lombardo intende assumere nel corso del Medioevo.

Abstract (in English)

The thread connecting seven essays of this book is the self-perception as a prism through which Milan could be read from the Late Antiquity to the high Middle Ages. On a long term, the medieval Milan has an exceptional development: under the episcopate of Ambrose, Milan was one of the capitals of the Roman Empire; later the city became an first-class ecclesiastical metropolis and a powerful city. Only rarely, however, such stratification – historical, cultural and material – has been investigated in a perspective of self-perception central to the medieval mentality. Especially for a city as Milan where tradition becomes guarantor of the key role that the capital of Lombardy intends to take during the Middle Ages, the notion of the self-perception is of the high importance.