St Peter's Basilica in Rome is arguably the most important church in Western Christendom, and is among the most significant buildings anywhere in the world. However, the church that is visible today is a youthful upstart, only four hundred years old compared to the twelve-hundred-year-old church whose site it occupies. A very small proportion of the original is now extant, entirely covered over by the new basilica, but enough survives to make reconstruction of the first St Peter's possible and much new evidence has been uncovered in the past thirty years. This is the first full study of the older church, from its late antique construction to Renaissance destruction, in its historical context. An international team of historians, art historians, archaeologists and liturgists explores aspects of the basilica's history, from its physical fabric to the activities that took place within its walls and its relationship with the city of Rome.
Table des matières :
Introduction
Paolo Liverani - St Peter's and the city of Rome between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages
Richard Gem - From Constantine to Constans: the chronology of the construction of St Peter's Basilica
Lex Bosman - Spolia in the fourth-century basilica
Olof Brandt - The early Christian Baptistery of St Peter's
Rosamond McKitterick - The representation of Old St Peter's Basilica in the Liber Pontificalis
Meaghan McEvoy - The Mausoleum of Honorius: late Roman imperial Christianity and the city of Rome in the fifth century
Alan Thacker - Popes, emperors and clergy at Old St Peter's from the fourth to the eighth century
Peter Jeffery - The Roman liturgical year and the early liturgy of St Peter's
Éamonn Ó Carragáin - Interactions between liturgy and politics in Old St Peter's, 670–741: John the Archcantor, Sergius I and Gregory III
Antonella Ballardini and Paola Pogliani - A reconstruction of the Oratory of John VII (705–707)
Charles McClendon - Old St Peter's and the Iconoclastic Controversy
Ann van Dijk - The Veronica, the Vultus Christi, and the veneration of icons in medieval Rome
Joanna Story - The Carolingians and the Oratory of Saint Peter the Shepherd
John Osborne - Plus Caesare Petrus: the Vatican Obelisk and the approach to St Peter's
Carmela Vircillo Franklin - The legendary of St Peter's Basilica: hagiographic traditions and innovations in the late eleventh century
Katharina Christa Schüppel - The stucco crucifix of Saint Peter's reconsidered: textual sources and visual evidence for the Renaissance copy of a medieval silver crucifix
Carol M. Richardson - St Peter's in the fifteenth century: Paul II, the archpriests and the case for continuity
Robert Glass - Filarete's renovation of the Porta Argentea at Old St Peter's
Catherine Fletcher - The altar of Saint Maurice and the invention of tradition in Saint Peter's
Bram Kempers - Epilogue. A hybrid history: the antique basilica with a modern dome
Carol M. Richardson and Joanna Story - Appendix. Letter of the Canons of St Peter's to Paul V concerning the demolition of the old basilica, 1605
Informations pratiques :
Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Carol M. Richardson, et Joanna Story (ed.), Old Saint Peter's, Rome, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014 (British School at Rome Studies). 252 x 182 x 28 mm, 513 pages. 103 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 3 tables. ISBN : 9781107041646.
Source de l'information : Cambridge University Press