Umfang:
1 online resource (524 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107728615
Serie:
British School at Rome Studies
Inhalt:
Provides the first full study of the original church on the site of St Peter's Basilica in Rome, from late antique construction to Renaissance destruction. Explores aspects of the basilica's history, from its physical fabric to the activities that took place within its walls and its relationship with Rome itself
Anmerkung:
Intro -- Contents -- 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 evidence -- The 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 sources -- Fifth-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
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9 Interactions between liturgy and politics in Old Saint Peter's, 670-741 -- 10 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 cloth -- Carolingian 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 -- Bramante's drawings -- Conclusion -- Appendix Letter of the canons of Saint Peter's to Paul V concerning the demolition of the old basilica, 1605 -- Bibliography -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version McKitterick, Rosamond Old Saint Peter's, Rome New York : Cambridge University Press,c2013 ISBN 9781107041646
Sprache:
Englisch
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