Download or read book Rome Re-Imagined written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the image of Rome through Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Persian descriptions of the eternal city. Placing the twelfth-century renaissance into a Mediterranean context. The city of Rome is revealed as a multi-vocal object of desire and a contested ideal.