Material memory: rebuilding the basilica of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome
Caroline Goodson
Examining Pope Paschal I's early ninth‐century architectural project of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome, brings to light the diversity functions tituli medieval Rome. Not only was church a papal basilica and site stational liturgy but it also shrine saint Cecilia, popular Roman martyr. The arrangement makes clear that incorporated both cult by manipulating archaeology translating corporeal relics urban church.
Early Medieval Europe