City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages

City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages
ISBN-10
0812250087
ISBN-13
9780812250084
Series
City of Saints
Category
History
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2018-04-16
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Author
Maya Maskarinec

Description

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.

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