The Carolingian afterlife of the Damasan inscriptions
Maya Maskarinec
This paper investigates the multiple impulses that contributed to early medieval interest in Pope Damasus's inscriptions. In part, verses were read as guides Rome's martyrial topography; they served models of a classicizing Christian style. Above all, appeal these derived from their association with Damasus himself, who came be seen secure mediator past. Concurrently, figure grew stature, saint marked by his solicitude for community, whether living or dead.
Early Medieval Europe