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Old Saint Peter's, Rome /
First full study of the predecessor church of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, from late antique construction to Renaissance destruction.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | British School at Rome studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Figures; Plates; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Tu es Petrus; Old Saint Peter's- new histories; A note about the use of English/Italian names for churches and basilicas; A note about plans used in this volume; 1 Saint Peter's and the city of Rome between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages; 2 From Constantine to Constans; Introduction; The evidential basis for the chronology of construction; Historical evidence; Epigraphic evidence; The gold cross; The triumphal arch inscription; The two apse inscriptions; The apse brick stamps.
- Archaeological evidenceThe triumphal arch; The apse and west wall; The transept exedrae; Archaeological summary; Interpretation of the chronology of construction; The building in its context; 3 Spolia in the fourth-century basilica; 4 The Early Christian baptistery of Saint Peter's; 5 The representation of Old Saint Peter's basilica in the Liber Pontificalis; Presentation of the uses of Saint Peter's basilica in the Liber Pontificalis; Papal consecrations; The development of Saint Peter's as a papal necropolis; Imperial models; Conclusion; 6 The mausoleum of Honorius.
- The mausoleum of Honorius in the sourcesFifth-century imperial interest in the city of Rome; Political context: child-emperor regimes of the late Roman west; Saint Peter's and imperial and papal burials in the fifth century; Imperial-papal relations in fifth-century Rome; Conclusion; 7 Popes, emperors and clergy at Old Saint Peter's from the fourth to the eighth century; Conclusions; 8 The early liturgy of Saint Peter's and the Roman liturgical year; The basilicas and their monasteries; The monastic-basilican office at Saint Peter's; Two ways of organizing the liturgical year.
- 9 Interactions between liturgy and politics in Old Saint Peter's, 670-74110 A reconstruction of the oratory of John VII (705-7); The oratory of John VII in Old Saint Peter's: architectural decoration and furnishings; The oratory of John VII in Old Saint Peter's: the mosaics; 11 Old Saint Peter's and the Iconoclastic Controversy; 12 The Veronica, the Vultus Christi and the veneration of icons in medieval Rome; 13 The Carolingians and the oratory of Saint Peter the Shepherd; A pilgrimage for Saint Peter and the Oratorium Pastoris; Carolingian gifts to Saint Peter the Shepherd; A votive crown.
- An altar clothCarolingian visitors; 14 Plus Caesare Petrus; 15 The Legendary of Saint Peter's basilica; Introduction: the Legendary; The historical and liturgical contexts; Archivio di San Pietro A 3; Sanctoral; Conclusion; 16 The stucco crucifix of Saint Peter's reconsidered; 17 Saint Peter's in the fifteenth century; 18 Filarete's renovation of the Porta Argentea at Old Saint Peter's; 19 The altar of Saint Maurice and the invention of tradition in Saint Peter's; 20 Epilogue. A hybrid history:; Official papal documents; The narrative of additions by the courtiers of Julius II.