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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.
Christian saints --- Christianity --- Cult --- History --- Social aspects --- Rome (Italy) --- Church history. --- Religions --- Church history --- Saints --- Canonization --- 11.52 medieval Christianity. --- Heiligtum. --- Städtebau. --- Wiederaufbau. --- Cult. --- Social aspects. --- To 1500. --- Europe. --- Italy --- Rom. --- Rome. --- Christian saints - Cult - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500. --- Christianity - Social aspects - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500. --- Christianity - Social aspects - Europe - History - To 1500. --- Roma --- Moyen Age --- Rome (Italy) - Church history. --- Rome (Italy) - History - 476-1420.
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Spanning the entire history of the city of Rome from Iron Age village to modern metropolis, this is the first book to take the long view of the Eternal City as an urban organism. Three thousand years old and counting, Rome has thrived almost from the start on self-reference, supplementing the everyday concerns of urban management and planning by projecting its own past onto the city of the moment. This is a study of the urban processes by which Rome's people and leaders, both as custodians of its illustrious past and as agents of its expansive power, have shaped and conditioned its urban fabric by manipulating geography and organizing space; planning infrastructure; designing and presiding over mythmaking, ritual, and stagecraft; controlling resident and transient populations; and exploiting Rome's standing as a seat of global power and a religious capital.
City and town life --- Public spaces --- City planning --- Architecture and society --- Christianity --- City dwellers --- City population --- City residents --- Dwellers, City --- Residents of cities --- Urban dwellers --- Urban people --- Urban population --- Urban residents --- Urbanites --- Persons --- Population --- Religions --- Church history --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Cities and towns --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- History. --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Rome (Italy) --- Rome (Italy : Commune) --- Rome (Italy : Governatorato) --- Rūmah (Italy) --- Roma (Italy) --- Rom (Italy) --- Rím (Italy) --- Rzym (Italy) --- Comune di Roma (Italy) --- Rome --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- Geography. --- Rome (Italy : Comune) --- City and town life - Italy - Rome - History --- Public spaces - Italy - Rome - History --- City planning - Italy - Rome - History --- Architecture and society - Italy - Rome - History --- Christianity - Social aspects - Italy - Rome - History --- City dwellers - Italy - Rome - History --- Rome ancienne --- Urbanisme --- Histoire urbaine --- Espace public --- Christianisme --- Aspects sociaux --- Rome (Italy) - Social life and customs --- Rome (Italy) - Social conditions --- Rome (Italy) - Geography
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