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- Title
NARRATIVE STRATEGIES IN THE LIBER PONTIFICALIS: St Paul, and San Paolo fuori le mura.
- Authors
MCKITTERICK, ROSAMOND
- Abstract
The Liber Pontificalis offers a distinctively Christian presentation of the Roman past designed to change its audience's understanding of Roman history. The pope's relationship to St Peter, and the promotion of the cult of St Peter, are evident in much of the papal activity recorded by the Liber Pontificalis. In the light of the emphasis on both Peter and Paul in Roman iconography, and the Roman liturgical cults of the apostolic saints Peter and Paul so well established in the course of the fourth and fifth centuries, as well as highlighted so enthusiastically by Arator, the narrative strategies of the Liber Pontificalis in relation to St Paul and the imperial basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura actually present some very interesting comparisons and contrasts with the representation of St Peter and St Peter's basilica. It is with these and their implications that this paper is concerned.
- Subjects
LIBER pontificalis (Book); ROMAN history sources; PETER, the Apostle, Saint, ca. 1 B.C.-67 A.D.; PAUL, the Apostle, Saint; ARATOR, of Liguria; NARRATION; ST. Peter's Basilica (Vatican City)
- Publication
Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo, 2013, Vol 10, Issue 1, p115
- ISSN
1827-7365
- Publication type
Article