Domesticating saints in medieval and early modern Rome
How elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their ownDomesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome explores the creative efforts of some of Rome’s most prominent noble families to weave themselves into Rome’s Christian pas...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
| Υπηρεσία παραγγελιών Subito: | Παραγγείλετε τώρα. |
| Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Έκδοση: |
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2025]
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| Στο/Στη: | Έτος: 2025 |
| Μονογραφική σειρά/Περιοδικό: | The Middle Ages series
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| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
lineage
B The Savelli B gens Anicia B Medieval / HISTORY B Christian antiquity B St. Francis B St. Benedict Anicius B patristics B The Frangipani B monastic houses B churches B nobles nobility B St. Dominic B St. Alexius B ancient Rome B family genealogy B legends B secular vs sacred B hagiography B saints B Gregory the Great B architecture B sanctity |
| Διαθέσιμο Online: |
Cover (Publisher) Volltext (doi) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Παράλληλη έκδοση: | Μη ηλεκτρονικά
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| Σύνοψη: | How elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their ownDomesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome explores the creative efforts of some of Rome’s most prominent noble families to weave themselves into Rome’s Christian past. Maya Maskarinec shows how, from late antiquity to early modernity, elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own, eventually claiming them as ancestors.Over the course of the Middle Ages, there developed a pronounced sense that churches and their saints belonged to specific regions, neighborhoods, and even families. These associations, coupled with a resurgent interest in Rome’s Christian antiquity as well as in noble lineages, enabled Roman families to “domesticate” the city’s saints and dominate the urban landscape and its politics into the early modern era. These families cultivated saintly genealogies and saintly topologies (exploiting, for example, the increasingly prolific identification of churches as the former residences of early Christian and late antique saints), cementing presumed connections between place, descent, and moral worth.Drawing from sources spanning the fourth to the late sixteenth century, Maskarinec brings into conversation saints’ lives, documentary evidence, family genealogies, monumental and domestic architecture, and medieval and early modern guidebooks, sources not often studied together. Bridging the divide between secular and sacred histories of Rome, Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome repositions these materials within a new story, of how Romans made the city’s classical and Christian past their own and thereby empowered and immortalized their families |
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| Περιγραφή τεκμηρίου: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite 269-295 |
| Φυσική περιγραφή: | 1 Online-Ressource (307 Seiten), Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5128-2702-6 |
| Πρόσβαση: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.9783/9781512827026 |
