City of Saints

Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages

Maya Maskarinec (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2018
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-5008-4 (ISBN)

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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, economically, and politically. How then, asks Maya Maskarinec, did this exhausted city, with limited Christian presence, transform over the course of the sixth through ninth centuries into a seemingly inexhaustible reservoir of sanctity?

Conventional narratives explain the rise of Christian Rome as resulting from an increasingly powerful papacy. In City of Saints, Maskarinec looks outward, to examine how Rome interacted with the wider Mediterranean world in the Byzantine period. During the early Middle Ages, the city imported dozens of saints and their legends, naturalized them, and physically layered their cults onto the city's imperial and sacred topography. Maskarinec documents Rome's spectacular physical transformation, drawing on church architecture, frescoes, mosaics, inscriptions, Greek and Latin hagiographical texts, and less-studied documents that attest to the commemoration of these foreign saints. These sources reveal a vibrant plurality of voices—Byzantine administrators, refugees, aristocrats, monks, pilgrims, and others—who shaped a distinctly Roman version of Christianity. City of Saints extends its analysis to the end of the ninth century, when the city's ties to the Byzantine world weakened. Rome's political and economic orbits moved toward the Carolingian world, where the saints' cults circulated, valorizing Rome's burgeoning claims as a microcosm of the "universal" Christian church.

Maya Maskarinec is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California.

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

Appendices

1. Saints from Abroad Venerated in Rome, ca. 500-900

2. Theodotus and S. Angelo in Pescheria

3. The Translatio of St. Caesarius from Terracina to Rome

4. The Spread of St. George's Cult

5. An Early Medieval Diaconia Dedicated to St. Nicholas?

6. The Passio of St. Boniface of Tarsus

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	The Middle Ages Series
Zusatzinfo	21 color, 33 b/w illus.
Verlagsort	Pennsylvania
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8122-5008-7 / 0812250087
ISBN-13	978-0-8122-5008-4 / 9780812250084
Zustand	Neuware