{"product_id":"domesticating-saints-in-medieval-and-early-modern-rome-9781512827019","title":"Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city's saints for their own\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDomesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome\u003c\/i\u003e explores the creative efforts of some of Rome's most prominent noble families to weave themselves into Rome's Christian past. Maya Maskarinec shows how, from late antiquity to early modernity, elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city's saints for their own, eventually claiming them as ancestors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOver the course of the Middle Ages, there developed a pronounced sense that churches and their saints belonged to specific regions, neighborhoods, and even families. These associations, coupled with a resurgent interest in Rome's Christian antiquity as well as in noble lineages, enabled Roman families to \"domesticate\" the city's saints and dominate the urban landscape and its politics into the early modern era. These families cultivated saintly genealogies and saintly topologies (exploiting, for example, the increasingly prolific identification of churches as the former residences of early Christian and late antique saints), cementing presumed connections between place, descent, and moral worth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing from sources spanning the fourth to the late sixteenth century, Maskarinec brings into conversation saints' lives, documentary evidence, family genealogies, monumental and domestic architecture, and medieval and early modern guidebooks, sources not often studied together. Bridging the divide between secular and sacred histories of Rome, \u003ci\u003eDomesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome\u003c\/i\u003e repositions these materials within a new story, of how Romans made the city's classical and Christian past their own and thereby empowered and immortalized their families.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maya Maskarinec\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.31h x 7.32w x 1.97d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781512827019","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43446831513737,"sku":"9781512827019","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_3bedebf5-efa6-4fed-ba02-18d484361a00.jpg?v=1741682508","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/domesticating-saints-in-medieval-and-early-modern-rome-9781512827019","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}