Introduction: Rome across time and space, c.500-1400: cultural transmission and the exchange of ideas Claudia Bolgia; Part I. Roman Texts and Roman History: 1. Roman texts and Roman history in the early Middle Ages Rosamond McKitterick; 2. Monuments and histories: ideas and images of antiquity in some descriptions of Rome Maurizio Campanelli; 3. Rome, reservoir of ancient texts? Michael Reeve; Part II. The Translation of the 'Roman' Liturgy North of the Alps: 4. The periphery rethinks the centre: inculturation, 'Roman' liturgy and the Ruthwell Cross Éamonn Ó Carragáin; 5. The liturgy of the 'Roman' office in England from the conversion to the conquest Jesse D. Billett; 6. The Romanization of the Frankish liturgy: ideal, reality, and the rhetoric of reform Yitzhak Hen; Part III. Architectural Inspiration and Sculptural Models within and without Rome: 7. Building more romano in Francia during the third quarter of the eighth century: the abbey church of Saint-Denis and its model Judson J. Emerick; 8. Reception and renovation of Early Christian churches in Rome, c.1050-1300 Sible de Blaauw; 9. Giudizio sul Mille: Rome, Montecassino, S. Vincenzo al Volturno, and the beginnings of Romanesque John Mitchell; 10. The discourse of columns Dale Kinney; Part IV. Cultural Exchanges: 11. Design and decoration: re-visualizing Rome in Anglo-Saxon sculpture Jane Hawkes; 12. Rome and Constantinople in the ninth century John Osborne; 13. Antiquity, Rome, and Florence: coinage and transmissions across time and space William R. Day, Jr; Part V. Patrons, Artists and Ideas on the Move: 14. French patrons abroad and at home: 1260-1300 Julian Gardner; 15. Art-historical reflections on the fall of the Colonna, 1297 Paul Binski; 16. Exports to Padua Trecento style: Altichiero's Roman legacy Louise Bourdua; Part VI. Roman and Papal Jurisdictions: 17. A new Rome in a small place? Imitation and re-creation in the Patrimony of St Peter Brenda Bolton; 18. Appealing to Rome (and Avignon) before the Black Death: ecclesiastical disputes and church patronage in medieval Tuscany George Dameron.