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Bross., cm 24x17, pp 237, ill. b/n. Indice: Dedication - Sources - Introduction - I. St. Peter’s Basilica at the Time of the First Jubilee - II. Pictures as Scripture in Fifth-Century Churches - III. « Caput et speculum omnium ecclesiarum »: Old St. Peter’s and Church Decoration in Medieval Latium - IV. Old St. Peter’s as the Source and Inspiration of Medieval Church Decoration - V. Passover in St. Peter’s - VI. The Meeting of Peter and Paul in Rome: An Emblematic Narrative of Spiritual Brotherhood - VII. Diction in the « Bibles of the Illiterate » - VIII. The Oratory of Thomas Becket in Anagni - IX. Corporeal Texts, Spiritual Paintings, and the Mind’s Eye - X. A Small Corner of Paradise: San Paolo inter Vineas at Spoleto - XI. Discipuli domini: Apostles, Saints, and Prophets in Medieval Churces - XII. The Biblical Cycles in Santa Maria di Anglona - Index.