Reclaiming the Roman Capitol: Santa Maria in Aracoeli from the Altar of Augustus to the Franciscans, c....

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Claudia Bolgia

Reclaiming the Roman Capitol

Santa Maria in Aracoeli from the Altar of Augustus to the Franciscans, c. 500–1450

Claudia Bolgia

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Routledge
16 June 2017

The Arts: General & Reference; History of architecture; European history; Medieval history; The environment

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.

By: Claudia Bolgia
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 1.156kg
ISBN: 9781409417613
ISBN 10: 1409417611
Pages: 458
Publication Date: 16 June 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).

Reviews for Reclaiming the Roman Capitol: Santa Maria in Aracoeli from the Altar of Augustus to the Franciscans, c. 500–1450

""" 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"