The Ritual Paths of Otium and Negotium: An Interpretive Study of Renovatio Imperii in the High Renaissance

During the Papacy of Julius I1 (1503-1513) an ambitious programme of Church reform was instigated with particular emphasis on apocalyptic and eschatological notions. This coincided with the inception of a new providential role of Rome. As both repository of memory and catalyst of utopian ideals the city of Rome became the centre of a unique programme of spiritual and physical renovation, instauratio Romae.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.1995.29

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John K. Edwards