From Library Journal
Colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, Kessler and Zacharias have composed a book, focusing on some of the chief churches in Rome, that has a unique premise: accompanying a woman on her religious pilgrimage through Rome in August 1300, the year Pope Boniface VIII proclaimed the Church's first Year of Jubilee. The authors present scenes of still-standing church buildings and their interiors as they were in 1300, and they have reconstructed scenes of the apostolic basilicas (e.g., St. Peter and St. Paul Outside the Walls), which predate the present churches. Besides thoroughly treating the four patriarchal basilicas, the authors superbly display two very important and sometimes overlooked churches in the city: San Clemente and Santa Prassede. The authors, who are more expert at theology than art, have produced a book well worth taking along to Rome for the millennial Holy Year. The book is recommended for all libraries with an interest in Christian church architecture and art.
-David I. Fulton Coll. of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
-David I. Fulton Coll. of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Stuart Ferguson, Wall Street Journal
"The authors write clearly and informatively, and the pretense of a visit during the Middle Ages holds up well."
