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Roma Felix - Formation and Reflections of Medieval Rome (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Roma Felix - Formation and Reflections of Medieval Rome (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
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After the Roman empire fell, medieval Europe continued to be
fascinated by Rome itself, the 'chief of cities'. Once the hub of
empire, in the early medieval period Rome became an important
centre for western Christianity, first of all as the place where
Peter, Paul and many other important early Christian saints were
martyred: their deaths for the Christian faith gave the city the
appellation 'Roma Felix', 'Happy Rome'. But in Rome the history of
the faith, embodied in the shrines of the martyrs, coexisted with
the living centre of the western Latin church. Because Peter had
been recognised by Christ as chief among the apostles and was
understood to have been the first bishop of Rome, his successors
were acknowledged as patriarchs of the West and Rome became the
focal point around which the western Latin church came to be
organised. This book explores ways in which Rome itself was
preserved, envisioned, and transformed by its residents, and also
by the many pilgrims who flocked to the shrines of the martyrs. It
considers how northern European cultures (in particular, the Irish
and English) imagined and imitated the city as they understood it.
The fourteen articles presented here range from the fourth to the
twelfth century and span the fields of history, art history, urban
topography, liturgical studies and numismatics. They provide an
introduction to current thinking about the ways in which medieval
people responded to the material remains of Rome's classical and
early Christian past, and to the associations of centrality,
spirituality, and authority which the city of Rome embodied for the
earlier Middle Ages. Acknowledgements for grants in aid of
publication are due to the Publication Fund of the College of Arts,
Humanities, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at University
College Cork; to the Publication Fund of the National University of
Ireland, Dublin; and to the Office of the Provost, Ohio Wesleyan
University.
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