Revival and Reality: The Carolingian Renaissance in Rome and the basilica of S. Prassede
Caroline Goodson
The monumental architecture of the early middle ages in Rome has long been explained as a revival ancient architecture, specifically Constantinian basilicas, theory first advanced by Richard Krautheimer two seminal articles 1942. This article seeks to explore other ways which medieval buildings were significant, taking its focus basilica S. Prassede, built Paschal I (817-24). Paschal’s church incorporated very significant collection martyrs’ relics, translated from catacombs outside city into urban church. was saints’ shrine, mausoleum for his mother, and locus new kind papal authority. These aspects significance building generated more function than form.
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