...Rebekah Perry In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the nascent independent communes of central Italy expressed a new sense of civic identity through the staging of elaborate public liturgical processions that shaped and were shaped by local mythology and idiomatic urban landscapes. The Medieval...

... of the Assumption. Reconstructing the route and performance of the medieval Inchinata through textual, topographical, and archaeological data, Rebekah Perry argues that the procession evolved as an adaptation of “official” liturgical rites introduced by Tivoli's rival Rome to a native apotropaic ritual and local...

... Kuttner, and Rebekah Smick, editors Antiquity and Its Interpreters Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, and Madrid: Cambridge University Press, 2000, xv + 324 pp., 77 illus. $90.00, ISBN 0-521- 59400-6. Giambattista Vico, in his De nostri tem- poris studiorum ratione (1709), took a char- acteristically...

... in an accessibleformatHurwitgives us what must be pretty much the last word on the Acropolis of the 20th century. Thanks to this book, it is a monu- ment we can revisit again and again." -Bryn Mawr Classical Review 0-521-42834-3 Paperback $27.95 Antiquity and Its Interpreters Alina Payne, Ann Kuttner, and Rebekah Smick, Editors...

... Stickley 's Craftsman Farms: The Questfor an Arts-and-Crafts Utopia ROBERT W. GASTON on Alina Payne, Ann Kuttner, and Rebekah Smick, eds., Antiquity and Its Interpreters CHRISTOPHER MEAD on Karen Bowie, ed., La modernite avant Haussmann: Formes de l'espace urbain a Paris 1801-1853 JANE RENDELL on Hilde...

... and again." -Bryn Mawr Classical Review 0-521-42834-3 Paperback $27.95 Antiquity and Its Interpreters Alina Payne, Ann Kuttner, and Rebekah Smick, Editors Antiquity and Its Interpreters examines how the physical and textual remains of the ancient Romans were viewed and received by writers, artists...

... set- ting for worship. The broad area beneath the tower and the short arms of the Greek cross plan provided an open space for the congregation, unobstructed by pillars or other obsta- 5. Richardson, p. 49. After 189o La Farge designed a window, depicting Rebekah at the Well and commemorating James...