{"product_id":"city-of-saints-9780812250084","title":"City of Saints","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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?\u003cbr\u003eConventional narratives explain the rise of Christian Rome as resulting from an increasingly powerful papacy. In \u003ci\u003eCity of Saints\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Considerable strengths undergird this study. The author's expertise on the topography and legends of the city of Rome are evident throughout; her reading is broad and current . . . Excellent maps and plates (often photographed by the author herself ) are liberally spread throughout the volume,and they complement the story she tells. The reader comes away with a visceral sense of what it meant to live in medieval Rome and how the veneration of saints was woven into the urban fabric.\" * \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Maskarinec's evocative reading of the diverse array of saints is grounded in the author's extensive knowledge of the complex physical history of early medieval Rome. \u003ci\u003eCity of Saints\u003c\/i\u003e charts new territory in attending to audiences' perceptions of saints and the monuments dedicated to them and thereby uncovers how sanctity redeemed buildings surviving from Rome's classical past, since narratives about saints shaped both responses to antiquity and the growth of the city's early medieval built fabric.\" * \u003ci\u003eSpeculum\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCity of Saints\u003c\/i\u003e is an exceptional piece of scholarship, readable, even inviting. It might be the most important analysis of popular Christianity for the city of Rome in the early Middle Ages.\" * George Demacopoulos, Fordham University *\u003cbr\u003e\"Maya Maskarinec has done more than any author before her to explain why (and how) saints came to be inserted into and associated with particular places in Rome. It is rare to see a scholar with such a solid command of both the hagiographical literature and the most current scholarship on Roman archaeology, topography, and social history.\" * Hendrik Dey, Hunter College *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. A City of Saints\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Imperial Saints Triumphant in the Forum Romanum\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. St. Caesarius on the Palatine: Enriching Rome by Imperial Orders\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Miraculous Charity Along the Tiber's Banks\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Fashioning Saints for the Affluent on the Aventine Hill\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Collectivities of Sanctity in Early Medieval Rome\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Carolingian Romes Outside of Rome\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. A Universalizing Rome Through the Lens of Ado of Vienne\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e 1. Saints from Abroad Venerated in Rome, ca. 500-900\u003cbr\u003e 2. Theodotus and S. Angelo in Pescheria\u003cbr\u003e 3. The \u003ci\u003eTranslatio\u003c\/i\u003e of St. Caesarius from Terracina to Rome\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Spread of St. George's Cult\u003cbr\u003e 5. An Early Medieval \u003ci\u003eDiaconia\u003c\/i\u003e Dedicated to St. Nicholas?\u003cbr\u003e 6. The \u003ci\u003ePassio\u003c\/i\u003e of St. Boniface of Tarsus\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405736976727,"sku":"9780812250084","price":48.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812250084.jpg?v=1730493437","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/city-of-saints-9780812250084","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}