20703309 - CHRISTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

basic knowledge of the peculiarities of the discipline between classical and medieval antiquity and of the overall picture of the history of specific studies from the sixteenth century to the present; understanding of the different sectors making up the material and their fundamental coordinates.
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Programme

The aim of the course is the knowledge of the main research areas of Christian Archeology. The students will be able to deal with the study of the history and organization of the ancient Christian communities between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages through documentary and archaeological sources.
The course includes visits.

Core Documentation

Assignments:
V. Fiocchi Nicolai, F. Bisconti, D. Mazzoleni, Le catacombe cristiane di Roma. Origini, sviluppo, apparati decorativi, documentazione epigrafica, Regensburg 2025;
P. Testini, Archeologia Cristiana, Bari 1980: Propedeutica. Definizione, fonti e storia dell’archeologia cristiana (pp. 1-72);
R. Valentini-G. Zucchetti, Codice topografico della città di Roma, volume II, Roma 1942: Depositio episcoporum, Depositio martyrum (pp. 1-11); I papiri di Monza (pp. 29-34); (pp. 67-71) Notitia ecclesiarum urbis Romae; De locis sanctis martyrum quae sunt foris civitatis Romae (pp. 101-105);
H. Geertmann, Documenti, redattori e la formazione del testo del Liber Pontificalis, in H. Geertmann (a cura di), Il Liber Pontificalis e la storia materiale, Atti del Colloquio Internazionale (Roma, 21-22 febbraio 2002), in Mededelingen van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome - Papers of the Netherlands Institute in Rome 60-61, 2001-2002, Assen 2003, pp. 267-284.

Not attending students must contact giovanna.ferri@uniroma3.it for the program.

Type of delivery of the course

Traditional

Attendance

Non obbligatoria

Type of evaluation

oral exam