TICHÁ, Pavla and Markéta KULHÁNKOVÁ. Vatican Hill in the Time of Conversion : The Phrygianum Neighboring Old Saint Peter’s. CONVIVIUM-EXCHANGES AND INTERACTIONS IN THE ARTS OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE BYZANTIUM AND THE MEDITERRANEAN. 2021, vol. 8, Supplementum 3, p. 42-61. ISSN 2336-3452. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.130933.
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Original name Vatican Hill in the Time of Conversion : The Phrygianum Neighboring Old Saint Peter’s
Authors TICHÁ, Pavla (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Markéta KULHÁNKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition CONVIVIUM-EXCHANGES AND INTERACTIONS IN THE ARTS OF MEDIEVAL EUROPE BYZANTIUM AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, 2021, 2336-3452.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 60401 Arts, Art history
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/21:00125163
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.130933
UT WoS 000766842000003
Keywords in English baptism; Cybele; Early Christian literature; fourth century; Late Ancient Rome; Phrygianum; ritual; Saint Peter’s Basilica; spatiality; taurobolium; Vatican
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Throughout the fourth century, two religious communities co-existed and conducted their mysteries on the Vatican Hill. Phrygianum hosted the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother of Gods, while St Peter’s Basilica, with its hypothetical baptistery, belonged to the Christian community. Combining the study of material remnants with analysis of literary sources, this article aims to improve understanding of the function and perception of these two ritual spaces and the environment of the Vatican, from modern theories of lived space (H. Lefebvre) and embodied memory (É. Durkheim and R. Rappaport). The materials provide evidence of the perceived space of the Metroac shrine and baptistery, and the conceived space of both taurobolium and baptism. What emerges is how one and the same perceived topographical space on the Vatican differed dramatically in the ways it was conceived and lived in the experience of the followers of Cybele and of Christians.
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