City of Saints : : Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages / / Maya Maskarinec.

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• VerfasserIn: Maskarinec, Maya,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 21 color, 33 b/w illus.

It was far from inevitable that Rome would emerge as the spiritual center of Western Christianity in the early Middle Ages. After the move of the Empire's capital to Constantinople in the fourth century and the Gothic Wars in the sixth century, Rome was gradually depleted physically, economical...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. A City of Saints
• Chapter 2. Imperial Saints Triumphant in the Forum Romanum
• Chapter 3. St. Caesarius on the Palatine: Enriching Rome by Imperial Orders
• Chapter 4. Miraculous Charity Along the Tiber’s Banks
• Chapter 5. Fashioning Saints for the Affluent on the Aventine Hill
• Chapter 6. Collectivities of Sanctity in Early Medieval Rome
• Chapter 7. Carolingian Romes Outside of Rome
• Chapter 8. A Universalizing Rome Through the Lens of Ado of Vienne
• Epilogue
• Appendix 1. Saints from Abroad Venerated in Rome, ca. 500–800
• Appendix 2. Theodotus and S. Angelo in Pescheria
• Appendix 3. The Translatio of St. Caesarius from Terracina to Rome
• Appendix 4. The Spread of St. George’s Cult
• Appendix 5. An Early Medieval Diaconia Dedicated to St. Nicholas?
• Appendix 6. The Passio of St. Boniface of Tarsus
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Acknowledgments