Until a few decades ago, our understanding of medieval Rome was essentially based on information taken from written sources, on artworks, and on the rich ecclesiastical heritage of the Eternal City. But the development of an urban archaeology which explores not just the vast imperial Roman monumental and material record,

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

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:

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

The story of the Universal Flood and the posterior migrations.