In the early ninth century, a critical time in Rome s transformation from ancient capital to powerful bishopric to new state capital, Pope Paschal I undertook a building campaign to communicate his authority and Rome s importance as an ancient and contemporary seat of power. Combining analysis of contemporary chronicles and documents, architecture, mosaics and new archaeology of medieval Rome, Caroline Goodsonexamines Paschal s urban project, revealing new patterns of popular saint veneration in resplendent new churches built in traditional architectural vocabularies. These transformations...
In the early ninth century, a critical time in Rome s transformation from ancient capital to powerful bishopric to new state capital, Pope Paschal I u...
