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This is a comprehensive guide to the individual churches, catacombs, embellishments and artefacts of early Christian Rome. The author describes precisely where the extant features are situated and provides details of what can be seen.
"I focus in this book predominantly on the "invention" of the catacombs as sacred martyr shrines in counter-Reformation Rome and early modern Italy" (page 12) "Nicola Denzey Lewis challenges the common understanding of late antique Christianity as dominated by the Cult of Saint…