Mary M. Schaefer examines the ninth-century church Santa Prassede and its foundation myth, as well as an ideal of balanced male-female relationships and women holding pastoral office in the church of Rome.
Mary M. Schaefer offers a groundbreaking examination of the church of Santa Prassede in Rome. Rebuilt by Pope Paschal I in the early ninth century, the church was named in honor of Saint Praxedes, identified by some seventeenth-and eighteenth-century sources as presbytera or fem…
Sacrifice is a well known form of ritual in many world religions. Although the actual practice of animal sacrifice was largely abolished in the later history of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, it is still recalled through biblical stories, the ritual calendar and community even…
Opus Dei: archeologia dell'ufficio : Homo sacer, II, 5
by Agamben, Giorgio, Philosoph
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In fourth to sixth century Syria a nave-platform known as the Bema became popular in some regions before mysteriously disappearing; this study seeks to explain how these bemata functioned and which elements led to their decline.
