This collection of nineteen papers on sedes regiae , or royal seats, studies the urban areas and cities that became royal residences after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Acting as symbols of power as well as administrative and religious centres, this study is much more than an urban history. Contributors present new lines of investigation as well as revisions of traditional ideas about cities such as Constantinople, Ravenna, Carthage, Toulouse, Geneva, Lyon, Barcelona, Toledo, Merida and Rome and their fate at the hands of the barbarians. Papers in Spanish, Italian, French and English; English introduction.
