The Roman Catacombs
Author | : James Spencer Northcote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Catacombs |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Spencer Northcote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Catacombs |
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Author | : Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art, Early Christian |
ISBN | : 9783795422127 |
This important book is the revised Paperback edition. It presents the most recent scientific research on the Christian catacombs of Rome. In particular, it focuses on their origins and development, their artistic decoration and the inscriptions found there. Three chapters deal with the topography, iconography, and epigraphy of the catacombs, and abundant illustrations document the current state of the catacombs after the extensive restorations of recent years and incorporate the results of the latest excavations.
Author | : Gregory S. Athnos |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2023-07-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1666777323 |
Every story in catacomb art is a tale of deliverance, a tale of the powerlessness of death and the certainty of the resurrection. Looking back through fifteen hundred years of Christian art, it appears the crucifixion of Jesus holds the highest place. We haven’t looked back far enough. Go back to the first three centuries after Jesus walked among us. Walk the dark corridors of those subterranean burial chambers of the persecuted Christians. There we find a much different theology at work: a theology with resurrection hope and power at the center. If catacomb art were all we had of Christian theology and practice from the first three centuries AD—no Scriptures—we would have no choice but to conclude that the first message of the Christian faith was the Easter gospel.
Author | : Matilda Webb |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781902210582 |
An archaeologist who has worked extensively in Greece and Italy, Webb sets out 13 itineraries for travelers who want to visit monuments of Christian Rome from the first century, when the Apostles Peter and Paul came to the imperial capital, to the late ninth, the end of the Carolingian Renaissance. She also includes directions for seeing the pope. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : William Henry Withrow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Catacombs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Henry Withrow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Catacombs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Spencer Northcote |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Catacombs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Henry Withrow |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 739 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465602933 |
The present work, it is hoped, will supply a want long felt in the literature of the Catacombs. That literature, it is true, is very voluminous; but it is for the most part locked up in rare and costly folios in foreign languages, and inaccessible to the general reader. Recent discoveries have refuted some of the theories and corrected many of the statements of previous books in English on this subject; and the present volume is the only one in which the latest results of exploration are fully given, and interpreted from a Protestant point of view. The writer has endeavored to illustrate the subject by frequent pagan sepulchral inscriptions, and by citations from the writings of the Fathers, which often throw much light on the condition of early Christian society. The value of the work is greatly enhanced, it is thought, by the addition of many hundreds of early Christian inscriptions carefully translated, a very large proportion of which have never before appeared in English. Those only who have given some attention to epigraphical studies can conceive the difficulty of this part of the work. The defacements of time, and frequently the original imperfection of the inscriptions and the ignorance of their writers, demand the utmost carefulness to avoid errors of interpretation. The writer has been fortunate in being assisted by the veteran scholarship of the Rev. Dr. McCaul, well known in both Europe and America as one of the highest living authorities in epigraphical science, under whose critical revision most of the translations have passed. Through the enterprise of the publishers this work is more copiously illustrated, from original and other sources, than any other work on the subject in the language; thus giving more correct and vivid impressions of the unfamiliar scenes and objects delineated than is possible by any mere verbal description. References are given, in the foot-notes, to the principal authorities quoted, but specific acknowledgment should here be made of the authorÕs indebtedness to the Cavaliere De RossiÕs Roma Sotterranea and Inscriptiones Christian¾, by far the most important works on this fascinating but difficult subject. Believing that the testimony of the Catacombs exhibits, more strikingly than any other evidence, the immense contrast between primitive Christianity and modern Romanism, the author thinks no apology necessary for the somewhat polemical character of portions of this book which illustrate that fact. He trusts that it will be found a contribution of some value to the historical defense of the truth against the corruptions and innovations of Popish error.
Author | : Paul Erdkamp |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 647 |
Release | : 2013-09-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521896290 |
Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss issues ranging from the monuments and the games to the food and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity. Richly illustrated, the volume introduces groundbreaking new research against the background of current debates and is designed as a readable survey accessible in particular to undergraduates and non-specialists.
Author | : William Ingraham Kip |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Catacombs |
ISBN | : |