Time in the Eternal City is a major contribution to the study of time and its numerous aspects in late medieval and Renaissance Rome.

Volume II now extends coverage of the Imperial series from Nerva, the 'thirteenth Caesar' and first of the 'Adoptive' emperors, down to the overthrow of the Severan dynasty in 235. It encompasses what may justifiably be termed the 'golden age' of the Roman imperial coinage. The full development of the

Time and the Eternal City / Tuomas Heikkilä -- Temporal Expressions in Canonisation Processes and Diari, and the Perception of Time in Late Medieval Rome / Saku Pihko -- The Jubilee of 1300 as an Instrument of Time Control and Papal Power / Jasmin Lukkari -- Time Set in Stone:

The story of the Universal Flood and the posterior migrations.

Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the start on self-reference, supplementing