The reuse of ancient tuff blocks in early medieval construction in Rome

IF 0.7 2区 历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY
Margaret M. Andrews
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Abstract This paper analyzes the reuse of ancient tuff blocks in early medieval architecture in Rome, in both papal and private structures. The blocks are a well-known phenomenon, but they have not yet received any focused study. Short discussions in earlier scholarship have typically described them in utilitarian terms. I first identify a pattern of targeted reuse in papal building projects. I then argue that they would also have had symbolic value for an independent papacy wanting to display power. For later private builders, I propose that the blocks became prestige materials displayed on the houses of an ever-tightening aristocracy eager to be seen within some of the city's most important monumental spaces. I consider how the city's ancient monuments and their pieces were viewed in the early medieval period and how the blocks’ ancient contexts contributed to the symbolic value that I identify in them.
中世纪早期罗马建筑中对古代凝灰岩块的再利用
摘要:本文分析了中世纪早期罗马建筑中凝灰岩块的再利用,包括教皇建筑和私人建筑。这是一个众所周知的现象,但尚未得到任何集中的研究。早期学术的简短讨论通常用功利主义的术语来描述它们。我首先在教皇建筑项目中确定了一种有针对性的再利用模式。然后我认为,对于一个想要展示权力的独立教皇来说,它们也具有象征价值。对于后来的私人建筑商,我建议将这些街区作为声望材料,展示在越来越紧的贵族的房子上,他们渴望在城市一些最重要的纪念性空间中露面。我考虑的是,在中世纪早期,人们是如何看待这座城市的古代纪念碑和它们的作品的,以及这些街区的古代背景如何促成了我在它们身上发现的象征价值。
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