Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge Univesity Press, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McKitterick, Rosamond
• Osborne, John, 1951-
• Richardson, Carol M., 1969-
• Story, Joanna, 1970-

Description

xxx, 484 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

British School at Rome studies

Uniform Title

British School at Rome studies.

Subject

• Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano > History
• Church architecture > Vatican City
• Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Vatican City > Antiquities
• Vatican City > Buildings, structures, etc

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

JFF 16-1341

ISBN

• 9781107041646
• 1107041643

LCCN

2013013112

OCLC

842994063

Title

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

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge Univesity Press, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

British School at Rome studies

British School at Rome studies.

Bibliography

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

Added Author

McKitterick, Rosamond, author, editor.

Osborne, John, 1951- author, editor.

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

Story, Joanna, 1970- author, editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 16-1341