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E-book Rome and The Guidebook Tradition : From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century

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Rome is a paradox embodied in a city. It is both alive and buried, both pagan andChristian, both a small Mediterranean village and the historical centre of the westernworld. Rome is, and has for a very long time been, a place extraordinarily chargedwith preconceptions and prescriptions concerning cultural and historical heritage.Guidebooks to the city have, from the Middle Ages and onward, played a central rolein the development of the iconic image of a place that constitutes a non-negotiable“must-see”. Nowhere is this fact clearer than in guidebooks’instructions about howto experience Rome. It suffices to take a look into any contemporary guidebook:“It issimply the most fascinating city in Italy–and arguably in the world”;“Rome is one ofthe most celebrated cities of the world”;“few cities make quite so indelible animpression”.1Hyperbole forms part of any guidebook’s rhetorical elements, yet in the case ofRome, these features are, for historical and sociocultural reasons–which will beunveiled in this book–more intensely highlighted than elsewhere. The guidebookquotes above create great expectations, bothinthe tourist anduponthe tourist, of anaesthetical, cultural and historical experience that is more overwhelming and emo-tionally forceful than almost anything.Thus, the obligation to visit Rome has never been put into doubt, although drivenby different aims at different times. Buthowshould it be visited? That is a task thathas occupied writers of guidebooks to Rome for as many centuries as the city hasconstituted one of the most visited places in the western world. As a consequence ofthis, a literary commonplace was developed early on, with the statement that even alifetime would not be enough for seeing all that Rome has to offer. Already in thethirteenth century, the Rome traveller Magister Gregorius (“Master Gregory”) writesin hisNarratio De Mirabilibus Urbis Romae(“The Marvels of Rome”) that Romecontains so much worthy of seeing, that all of it cannot possibly be seen, much lessdescribed, by anyone.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

910.2 BLE r

Penerbit

Berlin : De Gruyter Saur., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

368 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783110615630

Klasifikasi

910.2

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Miscellany of Travel

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