Exploration of Paschal I's building campaign that illuminates the relationship between the material world and political power in medieval Rome.

Caroline J. Goodson is Lecturer in Medieval Archaeology at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London. She has authored a number of articles on Rome and Lazio with particular attention to ecclesiastical buildings and the cult of saints. She was co-editor of Walls and Memory: The Abbey of San Sebastiano, Alatri (Lazio) from Late Roman Monastery to Renaissance Villa and Beyond (2005).

1. Paschal I and the history of Rome; 2. Building in Rome; 3. Constructing the Papal City; 4. Beyond the basilica; 5. Building the home of the saints; 6. Transformations; Bibliography.