Fold out map attached to page 3 of cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Saint Peter's and the city of Rome between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages / Paolo Liverani -- From Constantine to Constans : the chronology of the construction of Saint Peter's Basilica / Richard Gem -- Spolia in the fourth-century basilica / Lex Bosman -- The early Christian baptistery of Saint Peter's / Olof Brandt -- The representation of old Saint Peter's Basilica in the Liber pontificalis / Rosamond McKitterick -- The mausoleum of Honorius : late Roman imperial Christianity and the city of Rome in the fifth century / Meaghan McEvoy -- Popes, emperors and clergy at old Saint Peter's from the fourth to the eighth centuries / Alan Thacker -- The Roman liturgical year and the early liturgy of Saint Peter's / Peter Jeffery -- Interactions between liturgy and politics in old Saint Peter's, 670-741 : John the archcantor, Sergius I and Gregory III / Eamonn O Carragain -- A reconstruction of the oratory of John VII (705-7) / Antonella Ballardini and Paola Pogliani -- Old Saint Peter's and the iconoclastic controversy / Charles McClendon -- The Veronica, the Vultus Christi, and the veneration of icons in medieval Rome / Ann van Dijk. The Carolingians and the oratory of Saint Peter the Shepherd / Joanna Story -- Plus Caesare Petrus : the Vatican obelisk and the approach to Saint Peter's / John Osborne -- The legendary of Saint Peter's basilica : hagiographic traditions and innovations in the late eleventh century / Carmela Vircillo Franklin -- The stucco crucifix of Saint Peter's reconsidered : textual sources and visual evidence for the Renaissance copy of a medieval silver crucifix / Katharina Christa Schuppel -- Saint Peter's in the fifteenth century : Paul II, the archpriests and the case for continuity / Carol M. Richardson -- Filarete's renovation of the porta argentea at old Saint Peter's / Robert Glass -- The altar of Saint Maurice and the invention of tradition in Saint Peter's / Catherine Fletcher -- Epilogue a hybrid history : the antique basilica with a modern dome / Bram Kempers -- Appendix letter of the canons of saint Peter's to Paul V concerning the demolition of the old basilica, 1605 / Carol M Richardson and Joanna Story.
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