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  • THE SKULL OF BEDE

  • Joanna Story, Richard N Bailey
  • Journal:
    The Antiquaries Journal / Volume 95 / September 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 August 2015, pp. 325-350
    Print publication:
    September 2015

  • In 1831 Dr James Raine excavated Bede’s tomb in Durham Cathedral, revealing a partial skeleton accompanied by a medieval ring. Three casts were made of the skull; the recent re-discovery of one of these casts provokes an examination of the authenticity of the remains and of antiquarian interests in craniology in the mid-nineteenth century.

Old Saint Peter's, Rome
  • Edited by Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Carol M. Richardson, Joanna Story
  • Published online:
    18 December 2013
    Print publication:
    07 November 2013
  • St Peter's Basilica in Rome is arguably the most important church in Western Christendom, and is among the most significant buildings anywhere in the world. However, the church that is visible today is a youthful upstart, only four hundred years old compared to the twelve-hundred-year-old church whose site it occupies. A very small proportion of the original is now extant, entirely covered over by the new basilica, but enough survives to make reconstruction of the first St Peter's possible and much new evidence has been uncovered in the past thirty years. This is the first full study of the older church, from its late antique construction to Renaissance destruction, in its historical context. An international team of historians, art historians, archaeologists and liturgists explores aspects of the basilica's history, from its physical fabric to the activities that took place within its walls and its relationship with the city of Rome.

  • Appendix - Letter of the canons of Saint Peter's to Paul V concerning the demolition of the old basilica, 1605

  • Edited by Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge, John Osborne, Carleton University, Ottawa, Carol M. Richardson, University of Edinburgh, Joanna Story, University of Leicester
  • Book:
    Old Saint Peter's, Rome
    Published online:
    18 December 2013
    Print publication:
    07 November 2013, pp 404-415

  • Summary

    Liturgical practices were not strictly uniform from one community to another, but there was a tendency to view Saint Peter's as the model, and it was at Saint Peter's that some important features of the familiar Roman liturgy took shape. For the eighth-century office celebrated by the monasteries serving Saint Peter's, the evidence is focused largely on the cycles of readings during the night office of Matins. The fourfold liturgical year, centred on Saint Peter's, seems to underlie the arrangement of readings in OR XIV, OR XVI and OR XIVB, representing the period when the great Roman basilicas were staffed by monastic communities, and when Saint Peter's seems to have been something of a model for the other churches of the city. The liturgical leadership seems to have been shifting away from the Vatican basilica, toward the person of the pope himself, whose cathedra or chair was at the Lateran.

  • 13 - The Carolingiansand the oratoryof Saint Peter the Shepherd

  • Edited by Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge, John Osborne, Carleton University, Ottawa, Carol M. Richardson, University of Edinburgh, Joanna Story, University of Leicester
  • Book:
    Old Saint Peter's, Rome
    Published online:
    18 December 2013
    Print publication:
    07 November 2013, pp 257-273

  • Summary

    The relationship that developed between the Carolingian dynasty and the papacy during the later eighth and the ninth century was of crucial importance for both institutions. A well-known pilgrim's itinerary of the basilica that dates to the later eighth century enhances the understanding of the liturgical topography of Saint Peter's during the age of Charlemagne. It draws our attention to an oratory dedicated to Saint Peter the Shepherd that, on the basis of other contemporary evidence, seems to have been a focus for Carolingian patronage. The interpretation of the pilgrim's route and the doctrinal function of the Oratorium Pastoris adds considerable significance to two gifts to the basilica that may be assigned to this oratory. The first of these gifts was a votive crown, a regnum, to hang above an altar. The occasion of the donation of Hildegard's altar cloth was probably also that of a royal baptism in Rome.

  • Bibliography

  • Edited by Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge, John Osborne, Carleton University, Ottawa, Carol M. Richardson, University of Edinburgh, Joanna Story, University of Leicester
  • Book:
    Old Saint Peter's, Rome
    Published online:
    18 December 2013
    Print publication:
    07 November 2013, pp 416-466

  • Summary

    Though the new Eastern feast of the Annunciation was adopted in the Latin West in the course of late seventh century, only one basilica developed in its liturgy a theological rationale for the new feast. The basilica was Saint Peter's on the Vatican. The liturgy of Saint Peter's on the Vatican was in the care of monks of Saint Martin. In Alfarano's plan, the chapel of the monastery is marked: just outside the western end of the basilica, slightly to the south of the apse. The author's example of how the liturgy at Saint Peter's looked out to a wider world beyond Rome is the celebration of All Saints in the chapel in front of the martyrium of Saint Peter, to the south side of the nave, in parte virorum. Saint Peter was chief of the apostles, who had been told by Christ to 'go therefore, teach ye all nations'.

  • Aldhelm and Old St Peter's, Rome

  • Joanna Story
  • Journal:
    Anglo-Saxon England / Volume 39 / December 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 March 2011, pp. 7-20
    Print publication:
    December 2010

  • Aldhelm of Malmesbury was one of the most prolific and influential scholars of early Anglo-Saxon England. His contemporary fame rested partly on the fact that he had been a pilgrim to Rome. This article presents new evidence for Aldhelm's literary debt to the epigraphy of early Christian Rome. Two ninth-century manuscripts from Reims contain an anthology of six epigrams which derive largely from verse inscriptions in Old St Peter's. Aldhelm quoted two of these, de Petro and de Andrea, almost verbatim in his Carmina Ecclesiastica. It is likely that Aldhelm knew these verses from first-hand observation rather than via the pages of a manuscript sylloge.

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