S. Maria in Aracoeli and the Franciscans in Rome - Franciscans in rome

Zusatztext " This is an excellent volume! which teems with artisitic insights and valuable information about Santa Maria in Aracoeli and the order's appropriation of this historical site in the centre of Rome. The author is to be warmly congratulated! as are the publishersfor producing such a de luxe book. The volume will be of immense interest to historians of art and students of Franciscan history." - Michael Robson! St. Edmund's College! Cambridge Informationen zum Autor Claudia Bolgia is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. She has published extensively on medieval Rome and Franciscan Art and Architecture in a range of international peer-reviewed journals. Co-editor, with Rosamond McKitterick and John Osborne, of Rome across Time and Space: Cultural Translation and the Exchange of Ideas, c. 500-1400 (2011), her research has attracted major Fellowships, including Villa I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2009–10), The British School at Rome (2012–14), CASVA – The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (2016–17), The Newberry Library (2016–17), and The Leverhulme Trust (2017–18). Klappentext This book deals with S. Maria in Aracoeli, the headquarters of the Franciscan Order in Rome, built on the Capitoline hill by the Friar Minors soon after they took over from the Benedictines in the mid-thirteenth century. The approach is to work from the monument as a whole outwards to broader questions concerning the Franciscans' physical and theoretical appropriation of the past, the adaptation of an ancient site by a 'modern' religious order, the relationship between deployment of spolia and Mendicant beliefs, the contribution of the Roman Franciscans to the development of Marian devotion, and to the transmission and reception of ideas across time and space. Zusammenfassung Prominently located on the Arx , the northern summit of the Capitoline hill, S. Maria in Aracoeli is the most significant medieval church of Rome to survive to the present day. Second major church of the Lesser Brothers or fratres minores in the Italian peninsula, and Roman headquarters of the Order, the Aracoeli played a vital role in the interaction between the Franciscans and the papacy, the friars and the laity, and the religious and civic authorities, as reflected in its art and architecture. On the basis of an interdisciplinary approach combining archaeological analysis with the finding of new archival evidence, reinterpretation of documents and literary and epigraphic sources, this book offers a reconstruction of the original church, its monuments and its Benedictine as well as eighth/ninth-century predecessors, which differs radically from earlier hypotheses. This reassessment in turn allows the author to revisit a number of major questions, including the Franciscans’ physical and theoretical appropriation of the past, the adaptation of an ancient site by a ‘modern’ religious order, the use and functions of space, the interaction between friars, laity and artists, and the contribution of the Roman Franciscans to the development of Marian devotion, thus shedding new light on the social, political and religious history of late-medieval Italy and its impact beyond the peninsula, from England to Bohemia and the Holy Land. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction From Isis to Mary: The Arx and its surroundings from Antiquity to the Middle Ages 1 Before the Franciscans: The previous churches on the site - Cunctarum prima quae fuit orbe sita : Literary, documentary, and epigraphic evidence from the earliest times to the thirteenth century - From S. Maria in Capitolio to S. Maria in Aracoeli: the title - Archaeological evidence from the earliest times to the thirteenth century - The previous churches and their relationship with the Fran...

Product details

• Authors: Claudia Bolgia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2017
• EAN: 9781409417613
• ISBN: 978-1-4094-1761-3
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 255 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book