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  • 7 - Rome and the Franks

  • John Osborne, Carleton University, Ottawa
  • Book:
    Rome in the Eighth Century
    Published online:
    11 June 2020
    Print publication:
    09 July 2020, pp 159-170

  • Summary

    Surveys political events in the second half of the eighth century as Rome, in the face of continued Lombard attacks, shifts its political ties from the emperor in Constantinople to the Franks, culminating with the coronation of the Frankish king Charlemagne as Roman ‘emperor’ in December 800

  • 9 - Hadrian I dux Dei

  • John Osborne, Carleton University, Ottawa
  • Book:
    Rome in the Eighth Century
    Published online:
    11 June 2020
    Print publication:
    09 July 2020, pp 194-218

  • Summary

    Examines the explosion of building activity and patronage associated with Pope Hadrian I (772–95), who sees off the final Lombard threat and forges a strong alliance with Charlemagne. Churches such as Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Santa Maria Antiqua (where his portrait was included), and Sant’ Adriano are examined for what their decorations reveal about the continuity of ‘Byzantine’ cultural influence and practice. Attention is then given to his repairs to Rome’s walls and water supply. The exceptional wealth of the papacy in this era permitted an unprecedented degree of generosity in terms of gifts of precious materials to the city’s churches (silk textiles, gold and silver metalwork, marble furnishings).