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Reclaiming the Roman Capitol: Santa Maria in Aracoeli from the Altar of Augustus to the Franciscans, c. 500-1450 (Paperback)
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Reclaiming the Roman Capitol: Santa Maria in Aracoeli from the Altar of Augustus to the Franciscans, c. 500-1450 (Paperback)
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Prominently located on the Arx, the northern summit of the
Capitoline hill, S. Maria in Aracoeli is the most significant
medieval church of Rome to survive to the present day. Second major
church of the Lesser Brothers or fratres minores in the Italian
peninsula, and Roman headquarters of the Order, the Aracoeli played
a vital role in the interaction between the Franciscans and the
papacy, the friars and the laity, and the religious and civic
authorities, as reflected in its art and architecture. On the basis
of an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological analysis
with the finding of new archival evidence, reinterpretation of
documents and literary and epigraphic sources, this book offers a
reconstruction of the original church, its monuments and its
Benedictine as well as eighth/ninth-century predecessors, which
differs radically from earlier hypotheses. This reassessment in
turn allows the author to revisit a number of major questions,
including the Franciscans' physical and theoretical appropriation
of the past, the adaptation of an ancient site by a 'modern'
religious order, the use and functions of space, the interaction
between friars, laity and artists, and the contribution of the
Roman Franciscans to the development of Marian devotion, thus
shedding new light on the social, political and religious history
of late-medieval Italy and its impact beyond the peninsula, from
England to Bohemia and the Holy Land.
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