Research Catalog

Title

The churches and catacombs of early Christian Rome : a comprehensive guide / Matilda Webb.

Author

Webb, Matilda

Publication

Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, c2001.

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Details

Description

xxvi, 324 p. : ill., plans; 26 cm.

Summary

This is a comprehensive guide to the individual churches, catacombs, embellishments and artefacts of early Christian Rome. The author describes precisely where the extant features are situated and provides details of what can be seen.

Subject

• Geschichte 100-900
• Geschichte 100-900
• Church buildings > Italy > Rome > Guidebooks
• Christian shrines > Italy > Rome > Guidebooks
• Catacombs > Italy > Rome > Guidebooks
• Christian antiquities > Italy > Rome > Guidebooks
• Rome (Italy) > Guidebooks

Genre/Form

Guidebooks

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-307) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Historical Introduction to Early Christian Rome -- The Itineraries -- St. Peter's -- The Treasury -- The Necropolis and St. Peter's Shrine -- The Necropolis -- Section through the Necropolis -- The Vatican Grottoes -- The Vatican Palace and Museums -- The Pio Christian Museum -- The Pio Clementine Museum -- The Vatican Library -- The Vatican City -- San Pellegrino -- Santo Stefano degli Abissini -- San Giovanni in Laterano -- San Giovanni in Fonte -- Scala Santa and the Lateran Palace -- Santa Croce in Gerusalemme -- Santa Maria Maggiore -- Santa Pudenziana -- Santa Prassede -- San Martino ai Monti -- San Pietro in Vincoli -- Sant'Agata dei Goti -- San Vitale -- Santa Susanna -- San Clemente -- Upper Church -- Lower Church -- Santi Quattro Coronati -- Santo Stefano Rotondo -- Santa Maria in Domnica -- Santi Giovanni e Paolo -- San Gregorio Magno -- Santa Maria Antiqua -- Oratory of The Forty Martyrs -- Santi Cosma e Damiano -- Santa Francesca Romana (Santa Maria Nova) -- Santi Quirico e Giulitta -- The Mamertine Prison -- The Colosseum -- San Marco -- Santa Maria ad Martyres (The Pantheon) -- Santa Maria in Via Lata -- The Diaconia -- Santi Apostoli -- San Marcello in Corso -- San Silvestro in Capite -- San Lorenzo in Lucina -- Sant'Agnese in Agone -- Sant'Angelo in Pescheria -- Santa Sabina -- Santa Maria in Cosmedin -- Santa Maria Egiziaca (The Temple of Fortuna Virilis) -- San Giorgio in Velabro -- San Teodoro -- Sant'Anastasia -- San Saba -- Santa Balbina -- Santi Nereo ed Achilleo.

ISBN

• 1902210573 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1902210581 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00035768

OCLC

• 43884428
• SCSB-12283919

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library