Rome's Holy Mountain
Rome's Holy Mountain

Author: Jason Moralee

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0190492279

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"Rome's Holy Mountain is the first book to chart the history of the Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity, from the third to the seventh centuries CE. It investigates both the lived-in and dreamed-of realities of the hill in an era of fundamental political, religious, and social change" --

City of Saints
City of Saints

Author: Maya Maskarinec

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2018-04-10

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0812250087

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City of Saints explores how Byzantine Rome naturalized saints from throughout the Mediterranean world to build a new sacred topography. As a result, an exhausted city with a limited Christian presence metamorphosed into the spiritual center of Western Christianity.