Rome between Lights and Shadows : Reconsidering “Renaissances” and “Decadence” in Early Medieval Rome

FOLETTI, Ivan and Sabina ROSENBERGOVÁ. Rome between Lights and Shadows : Reconsidering “Renaissances” and “Decadence” in Early Medieval Rome. Convivium. 2020, vol. 2020, Supplementum 2, p. 16-31, 17 pp. ISSN 2336-3452.

Basic information

• Original name: Rome between Lights and Shadows : Reconsidering “Renaissances” and “Decadence” in Early Medieval Rome
• Authors: FOLETTI, Ivan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Sabina ROSENBERGOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Convivium, 2020, 2336-3452.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 60401 Arts, Art history
• Country of publisher: Belgium
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/20:00117763
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• UT WoS: 000646577800002
• Keywords in English: Roman historiography; Roman art ninth and tenth centuries; medieval renaissances; sixteenth- to twentieth century historiography; Caesare Baronius; Magdeburg centuries; Richard Krautheimer’s undue influence on art history
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

The culture of ninth- and tenth-century Rome has always been perceived within a historiographical framework of alternating periods of rebirth and decline. This paper considers how the idea of “medieval renaissances”arose, how it evolved in the field of art history, and how it has affected the study of early medieval Rome. The paper also deals with a particular aspect of the modern historiography of Rome: the latter originated in debates between Protestants and Catholics in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, while the papacy remained, as always, the focus of historical narratives. Finally, the paper shows how art historians’ views of Rome’s ninth- and tenth-century material culture and art have, to a certain extent, been bound up with these historiographical tendencies.

Links

• MUNI/A/1192/2019, interní kód MU: Name: Umělecká úloha, tvar a čas v dějinách architektury a výtvarného umění (Acronym: Umělecká úloha v dějinách umění)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A