Lucrezia Spera
Lucrezia Spera is Full Professor of Christian and Medieval Archaeology (SSD L-ANT/08). She teaches "Late Antique Archaeology" in Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where she is also a member of the board in the Doctorat ofAntiquities. She has taken an Arts degree (Lettere), the Specialization Diploma in Archaeology at the National School of Archaeology - University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1993, the Doctoral Diploma in "Archaeology and post-classical Antiquities" at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1996, the Doctoral Degree at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology in 2003. In the years 1996-2005 she has been "Cultore della Materia" in Christian Archaeology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, in the years 1999-2005 "Assegnista di Ricerca" in Christian Archaeology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She is Professor of "Christian Topography of Rome" at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology (Vatican City State) since 2003. She is one of the scientific editorial staff for the "Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana" since 2003 and of the Organizer Committee of the International Congresses of Christian Archaeology. Since 2009 she is a Corresponding Member of the Pontifical Roman Academy of Archaeology and since 2018 Effective Member in the same Academy; since 2017 she is 'miembro correspondiente dell’Instituto Balear de la Historia'; since 2018 Member of the Comitato Vaticano di Studi Bizantini and Corresponding Member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom. She has studied especially the martyrial sanctuaries and the urban transformations in the Late Antiquity and Early medieval period and the phenomena of Christianization of spaces. She has attended to and direct archaeological excavations and she has attended, inland and abroad, and wrote contributions for many and various national and international congresses and conferences. She has published about 180 works and studies.
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translation of the holy bodies – a practice in which Paschal I was an undisputed protagonist – may have been associated with the movement of some materials and connected with phenomena of spoliation of sanctuaries and cemeteries.
The development of the theme is not easy and clashes
with some difficulties: the complexity of the relics removal’ phenomenon from the original tombs; the general difficulty to refer cemeterial marbles present in the various churches of Rome to specific suburban sites and to chronologically frame their displacement; the general lack of knowledge on the procedures of the spoliation, widely documented in the Christian funerary areas, sub divo and underground, from the early Middle Ages to the centuries of the modern age.
As a starting point, an attempt has been made to trace the origin of the ‘historical’ inscriptions, i.e. those linked to clearly recognisable original burial contexts and then dispersed in various urban churches.