Book contents
- The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600
- British School at Rome Studies
- The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Lateran Basilica to 1600
- 2 The Evolution of the Lateran: From the Domus to the Episcopal Complex
- 3 At the Foot of the Lateran Hill, from Via Sannio to Viale Ipponio: Archaeological Investigations Prior to the Construction of Metro Line C
- 4 Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey in the Saint John Lateran Basilica Complex
- 5 The First Residential Phases of the Lateran Area and a Hypothesis to Explain the So-Called Trapezoidal Building
- 6 The Castra Nova and the Severan Transformation of Rome
- 7 Andrea Busiri Vici and the Excavations of 1876: A Reassessment of the Archaeological Evidence
- 8 Visualising the Constantinian Basilica
- 9 Constantine’s Spolia: A Set of Columns for San Giovanni in Laterano and the Arch of Constantine in Rome
- 10 The Constantinian Basilica in the Early Medieval Liber Pontificalis
- 11 The Lateran Baptistery in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: New Certainties and Unresolved Questions
- 12 The Nymphaeum of Pope Hilarus
- 13 Examples of Medieval Construction Techniques in the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano
- 14 The Medieval Portico of Saint John Lateran
- 15 MATER ET CAPUT OMNIUM ECCLESIARUM: Visual Strategies in the Rivalry between San Giovanni in Laterano and San Pietro in Vaticano
- 16 The Remodelling of San Giovanni in Laterano by Pope Nicholas IV: Transept, Apse and Façade
- 17 Furtum Sacrilegum: The ‘Holy Heads’ of Peter and Paul and Their Reliquaries in the Lateran
- 18 Reconsidering the Traces of Gentile da Fabriano and Pisanello in the Lateran Basilica
- 19 The Rite of the Reconciliation of Penitents at the Lateran Basilica
- 20 The New Passion Relics at the Lateran, Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries: A Translocated Sacred Topography
- 21 The East Façade of the Complex of Saint John Lateran in the Modern Era
- 22 The Book of Acts in the Constantinian Basilica: Cardinal Cesare Baronio and the Navata Clementina in San Giovanni in Laterano
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - The Evolution of the Lateran: From the Domus to the Episcopal Complex
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 August 2020
Book contents
- The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600
- British School at Rome Studies
- The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Lateran Basilica to 1600
- 2 The Evolution of the Lateran: From the Domus to the Episcopal Complex
- 3 At the Foot of the Lateran Hill, from Via Sannio to Viale Ipponio: Archaeological Investigations Prior to the Construction of Metro Line C
- 4 Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey in the Saint John Lateran Basilica Complex
- 5 The First Residential Phases of the Lateran Area and a Hypothesis to Explain the So-Called Trapezoidal Building
- 6 The Castra Nova and the Severan Transformation of Rome
- 7 Andrea Busiri Vici and the Excavations of 1876: A Reassessment of the Archaeological Evidence
- 8 Visualising the Constantinian Basilica
- 9 Constantine’s Spolia: A Set of Columns for San Giovanni in Laterano and the Arch of Constantine in Rome
- 10 The Constantinian Basilica in the Early Medieval Liber Pontificalis
- 11 The Lateran Baptistery in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: New Certainties and Unresolved Questions
- 12 The Nymphaeum of Pope Hilarus
- 13 Examples of Medieval Construction Techniques in the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano
- 14 The Medieval Portico of Saint John Lateran
- 15 MATER ET CAPUT OMNIUM ECCLESIARUM: Visual Strategies in the Rivalry between San Giovanni in Laterano and San Pietro in Vaticano
- 16 The Remodelling of San Giovanni in Laterano by Pope Nicholas IV: Transept, Apse and Façade
- 17 Furtum Sacrilegum: The ‘Holy Heads’ of Peter and Paul and Their Reliquaries in the Lateran
- 18 Reconsidering the Traces of Gentile da Fabriano and Pisanello in the Lateran Basilica
- 19 The Rite of the Reconciliation of Penitents at the Lateran Basilica
- 20 The New Passion Relics at the Lateran, Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries: A Translocated Sacred Topography
- 21 The East Façade of the Complex of Saint John Lateran in the Modern Era
- 22 The Book of Acts in the Constantinian Basilica: Cardinal Cesare Baronio and the Navata Clementina in San Giovanni in Laterano
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Lateran area is a privileged place for the study of the ancient topography of Rome. Several excavations give us a relatively accurate idea of ??the Caelian Hill, although many of them are only partially published. We also have valuable references to the Caelian in the written sources, which need to be interpreted from both a philological and a historical and topographical point of view. This chapter offers an overview of the evidence, proposing revisions and corrections of some relevant issues at the center of discussion in recent years. It also explores the issue of private houses and the first seat of the Bishop of Rome in connection with the Lateran Basilica. The aim is to outline in a more precise way the urban evolution of the Lateran, which is particularly important in the transition from mid-imperial Rome to the late antique and early medieval city.
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