Reclaiming the Roman Capitol: Santa Maria in Aracoeli from the Altar of Augustus to the Franciscans, c. 500-1450

This book deals with S. Maria in Aracoeli, the headquarters of the Franciscan Order in Rome, built on the Capitoline hill by the Friar Minors soon after they took over from the Benedictines in the mid-thirteenth century. The approach is to work from the monument as a whole outwards to broader questions concerning the Franciscans' physical and theor