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.
- 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