Main entry:

Kessler, Herbert L., 1941- author.

Title & Author:

Rome 1300 : on the path of the pilgrim / Herbert L. Kessler and Johanna Zacharias.

Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut ; London : Yale University Press, [2000]

Description:

237 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
"This book takes us on the route of an imagined pilgrim of the first Jubilee"--Dust jkt.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index.
Introduction: Jubilee and Pilgrimage -- Chapter 1. The Papal Precinct at the Lateran -- Chapter 2. The Sancta Sanctorum, Reliquary of Reliquaries -- Chapter 3. The Journey of the Acheropita Commences -- Chapter 4. The Acheropita Approaches Its Destination -- Chapter 5. Where Son and Mother Reunite -- Chapter 6. The Two Apostolic Basilicas.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Following seven centuries of tradition, Pope John Paul II has declared 2000 a Jubilee year. This book takes us back to the first Holy Year, 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII promised eternal peace for the souls of all Christians who trekked to the Eternal City. Two hundred thousand pilgrims flocked to Rome in that year, viewing the sacred Christian sites that figured so prominently in their religious lives.
This book combines history and art history in very readable form. It is through an imagined woman's eyes that the authors and the reader see and are affected by the religious sites and rituals of Rome 1300 (e.g., the night-long procession of the icon of Christ from the Lateran to join the icon of Mary at S. Maria Maggiore across the city). The purpose of the book is to present medieval Rome as a living environment, to show how the major churches and the sacred relics, frescoes, icons, and mosaics within them actually served in the MIddle Ages to attract the faithful and to confirm and teach belief among the throngs of pilgrims who flocked to the eternal city. The authors not only look back at what pilgrims ventured to see in Rome during the first Jubilee but forward to the Holy Year of 2000, when an estimated 45 million Catholics will retrace the steps of their forebears in search of plenary absolution. -- From amazon.com.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0300081537 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780300081534 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art, Italian Italy Rome.
Christian art and symbolism Italy Rome To 500.
Christian art and symbolism Italy Rome Medieval, 500-1500.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages Fiction.
Holy Year, 1300.
Art italien Italie Rome.
Travel.
Christian art and symbolism.
Art, Italian.
Buildings.
Christian art and symbolism Medieval.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Bedevaarten.
Christelijke kunst.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages Italy Rome Fiction.
Art Italie Rome.
Art paléochrétien.
Art chrétien Moyen âge.
Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens Italie Rome.
Année sainte (1300)
Christian art and symbolism To 500 Italy Rome.
Christian art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500 Italy Rome.
Church architecture Italy Rome.
Rome (Italy) Church history.
Rome (Italy) Description and travel.
Rome (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.
Rome (Italie) Descriptions et voyages.
Italy Rome.
Rome (Italie) Histoire religieuse.

Form/genre:

Fictional Work
Fiction.
Church history.
Romans.

Added entries:

Zacharias, Johanna, 1942- author.
Zacharias, Johanna, 1942-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 215432
Call No.: N7952.R6 K4 2000
Status: Available