Underground Rome.
Fayard| N° d'inventaire | 2426 |
| Format | 14.5 x 19.5 |
| Détails | 294 p., 18 fig., 16 plates, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 1965 |
| Etat | Occasion |
| ISBN | |
Archaeology is fashionable. Excavations near and far are of increasing interest to a wide audience, eager to know the past in an exact and concrete way. Rome remains an irreplaceable place for the knowledge of the early Church and its cultural context: its underground passages preserve testimonies on this subject that cannot be found elsewhere, and also works of art well before those that are admired in the East. Filling this gap by treating Roman Rome with a keen concern for scientific truth and in as lively a manner as possible, such has been the goal of Mrs. Noële Maurice Denis-Boulet, who certainly does not intend here to describe everything, but only to offer a selection among recent or still little-known discoveries, and to present interpretations and conclusions unknown to the French public. For this essay, she is qualified by thirty years of uninterrupted and constantly renewed Roman studies since the time of the first edition of the guide "Romée". In particular, she used many elements of the effort she made during six years of Christian archaeology courses at the Institut supérieur de Liturgie in Paris.
Archaeology is fashionable. Excavations near and far are of increasing interest to a wide audience, eager to know the past in an exact and concrete way. Rome remains an irreplaceable place for the knowledge of the early Church and its cultural context: its underground passages preserve testimonies on this subject that cannot be found elsewhere, and also works of art well before those that are admired in the East. Filling this gap by treating Roman Rome with a keen concern for scientific truth and in as lively a manner as possible, such has been the goal of Mrs. Noële Maurice Denis-Boulet, who certainly does not intend here to describe everything, but only to offer a selection among recent or still little-known discoveries, and to present interpretations and conclusions unknown to the French public. For this essay, she is qualified by thirty years of uninterrupted and constantly renewed Roman studies since the time of the first edition of the guide "Romée". In particular, she used many elements of the effort she made during six years of Christian archaeology courses at the Institut supérieur de Liturgie in Paris.