Old Saint Peter's, Rome / edited by Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne and Carol M. Richardson, Joanna Story.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKitterick, Rosamond, author, editor.

Osborne, John, 1951- author, editor.

Richardson, Carol M., 1969- author, editor.

Story, Joanna, 1970- author, editor.

Series:

British School at Rome studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano--History.

Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano.

Church architecture.

History.

Vatican City--Antiquities.

Vatican City.

Antiquities.

Buildings--Vatican City.

Buildings.

Church architecture--Vatican City.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Church history--Middle Ages.

Local Subjects:

Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano.

Physical Description:

xxx, 484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge Univesity Press, 2013.

Contents:

Saint Peter's and the city of Rome between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / Paolo Liverani

From Constantine to Constans : the chronology of the construction of Saint Peter's Basilica / Richard Gem

Spolia in the fourth-century basilica / Lex Bosman

The early Christian baptistery of Saint Peter's / Olof Brandt

The representation of old Saint Peter's Basilica in the Liber pontificalis / Rosamond McKitterick

The mausoleum of Honorius : late Roman imperial Christianity and the city of Rome in the fifth century / Meaghan McEvoy

Popes, emperors and clergy at old Saint Peter's from the fourth to the eighth centuries / Alan Thacker

The Roman liturgical year and the early liturgy of Saint Peter's / Peter Jeffery

Interactions between liturgy and politics in old Saint Peter's, 670-741 : John the archcantor, Sergius I and Gregory III / Eamonn O Carragain

A reconstruction of the oratory of John VII (705-7) / Antonella Ballardini and Paola Pogliani

Old Saint Peter's and the iconoclastic controversy / Charles McClendon

The Veronica, the Vultus Christi, and the veneration of icons in medieval Rome / Ann van Dijk.

The Carolingians and the oratory of Saint Peter the Shepherd / Joanna Story

Plus Caesare Petrus : the Vatican obelisk and the approach to Saint Peter's / John Osborne

The legendary of Saint Peter's basilica : hagiographic traditions and innovations in the late eleventh century / Carmela Vircillo Franklin

The stucco crucifix of Saint Peter's reconsidered : textual sources and visual evidence for the Renaissance copy of a medieval silver crucifix / Katharina Christa Schuppel

Saint Peter's in the fifteenth century : Paul II, the archpriests and the case for continuity / Carol M. Richardson

Filarete's renovation of the porta argentea at old Saint Peter's / Robert Glass

The altar of Saint Maurice and the invention of tradition in Saint Peter's / Catherine Fletcher

Epilogue a hybrid history : the antique basilica with a modern dome / Bram Kempers

Appendix letter of the canons of saint Peter's to Paul V concerning the demolition of the old basilica, 1605 / Carol M Richardson and Joanna Story.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-465) and index.

ISBN:

9781107041646

1107041643

OCLC:

842994063