'… this illuminating book successfully challenges Brown and promotes the reexamination of much evidence for late antique saint piety … it reminds us that we ought to be open to discovering multiple historical perspectives – even within a single city, even at the same time.' Michelle Freeman, Reading Religion
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.