Title & Author:

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.

Description:

xxx, 484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

British School at Rome studies

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

ISBN:

9781107041646 (hardback)
1107041643 (hardback)
9781107728011
1107728010

Subject:

Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano History.
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano.
Church architecture Vatican City.
Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Architecture chrétienne Vatican.
Église Histoire 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Antiquities
Buildings
Church architecture
Church history Middle Ages
Sint-Pieter (Rome)
Kyrkoarkitektur.
Kyrkohistoria.
Vatican City Antiquities.
Vatican City Buildings, structures, etc.
Vatican City
Vaticaanstad.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

McKitterick, Rosamond, author, editor.
Osborne, John, 1951- author, editor.
Richardson, Carol M., 1969- author, editor.
Story, Joanna, 1970- author, editor.
British School at Rome studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288566
Call No.: BIB 230273
Status: Available