Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome

List of contents

1. The Reinventio of the Hidden City; 2. Rewiring the Sacred Circuit (Roma Sancta Renovata); 3. Remains to be Seen (or, 'on the Holy Corpse'); 4. Peter's Bones; 5. De Rossi's Deception: Crafting the Crypt of the Popes; 6. Raising Late Antique Jews from the Valley of Dry Bones; 7. Disposing with Depositio (Ad Sanctos); 8. Inventing Christian Rome.

About the author

Nicola Denzey Lewis holds the Margo L. Goldsmith Chair in Women's Studies in Religion at Claremont Graduate University. A recipient of research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies, along with additional support from, among other sources, the American Academy of Religion and the International Catacomb Society, she serves on the editorial boards of Gnosis and the Journal of Early Christian Studies. Denzey Lewis also actively works as a public intellectual, having consulted on and appeared in two seasons of CNN's popular series, 'Finding Jesus.' She has also appeared in numerous shows for the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, and Discovery, along with live news appearances for NBC and CNN and CBC Radio Canada's Religion news show, 'Tapestry.'

Summary

How did corpses come to be considered holy in Roman Catholicism? And when? This book considers Rome as a case study, revising the idea that the 'corporeal turn' characterized the centuries after Constantine, locating it instead in early modern attitudes toward death, antiquity, and the survival of the Church against secularism.

Product details

• Authors: Nicola Denzey, Nicola (Claremont Graduate School Denzey, Nicola (Claremont Graduate School Californ Denzey, Nicola Denzey Lewis, Nicola (Claremont Graduate Universit Denzey Lewis, Nicola (Claremont Graduate University Denzey Lewis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108471893
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47189-3
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; European History, RELIGION / History, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Church history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages