TY - BOOK ID - 32829259 TI - City of saints : rebuilding Rome in the early Middle Ages PY - 2018 SN - 9780812250084 0812250087 PB - Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press DB - UniCat KW - Christian saints KW - Christianity KW - Cult KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Rome (Italy) KW - Church history. KW - Religions KW - Church history KW - Saints KW - Canonization KW - 11.52 medieval Christianity. KW - Heiligtum. KW - Städtebau. KW - Wiederaufbau. KW - Cult. KW - Social aspects. KW - To 1500. KW - Europe. KW - Italy KW - Rom. KW - Rome. KW - Christian saints - Cult - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500. KW - Christianity - Social aspects - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500. KW - Christianity - Social aspects - Europe - History - To 1500. KW - Roma KW - Moyen Age KW - Rome (Italy) - Church history. KW - Rome (Italy) - History - 476-1420. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32829259 AB - 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. ER -