Medieval Rome analyses the history of the city of Rome between 900 and 1150, a period of major change in the city. This volume doesn\047t merely seek to tell the story of the city from the traditional Church standpoint; instead, it engages in studies of the city\047s processions, material culture, legal transformations, and sense of the past, seeking to unravel the complexities of Roman cultural identity, including its urban economy, social history as seen across the different strata of society, and the articulation between the city\047s regions. This new approach serves to underpin a major reinterpretation of Rome\047s political history in the era of the \047reform papacy\047, one of the greatest crises in Rome\047s history, which had a resonance across the entire continent. Medieval Rome is the most systematic analysis ever made of two and a half centuries of Rome\047s history, one which saw centuries of stability undermined by external crisis and the long period of reconstruction which followed.