Early Reception and Appropriation of the Apostle Peter (60-800 CE)

Roald Dijkstra, Ph.D. (2014), Radboud University Nijmegen, is postdoctoral assistant at KU Leuven. He co-authored Peter in Rome about the early Roman reception of the apostle (Garant, 2019) and published The Apostles in Early Christian Art and Poetry (Brill, 2016).Contributors are: Régis Burnet, John R. Curran, Roald Dijkstra, Jutta Dresken-Weiland, Kristina Friedrichs, Olivier Hekster, Annewies van den Hoek, Mark Humphries, Markus Löx, Thomas F. X. Noble, Els Rose, Carl P. E. Springer, Alan Thacker.

"(...) this volume does make important historiographical contributions about the development of religious figures in a changing urban and political environment. The conceptual basis of anchoring can serve well as a model for studies ranging from the reception of religious texts to the developing role(s) of institutions in urban life and the Anchoring Innovation series seems poised to produce volumes of equal historiographical importance." - Andrew Steck, in: BMCR 2021.10.55"'Les exposés sont clairs et précis, et ... on ressort convaincu de la majorité des raisonnement exposés. La plupart des auteurs inscrivent leur discours et positionnent leurs idées par rapport à l’idée directrice de l’ouvrage, celle d’« Anchoring Innovation ». Il en résulte un très bel aperçu de la construction de la figure de Pierre et des mécanismes d’ancrage dans l’Antiquité (tardive) qui y sont liés." - Charles Wastiau, in: Anabases 2022

• ForewordIneke SluiterPrefaceRoald DijkstraList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsContributorspart 1: Anchoring the Apostle: the Volume and Its Concept1 Peter, Popes, Politics and More: the Apostle as AnchorRoald Dijkstra2 Ruling through Religion? Innovation and Tradition in Roman Imperial RepresentationOlivier Heksterpart 2: Anchoring the Authority of Peter3 From Petrus to Pontifex MaximusJohn R. Curran4 The Multiple Meanings of Papal Inscriptions in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle AgesThomas F. X. Noble5 Attitudes to Jewish and Roman Power in the Gospel and Acts of PeterMarkus Bockmuehl6 Peter, the Visionary before the Pope: Early Receptions of the Apostle in Marginal CommunitiesRégis Burnetpart 3: Anchoring Peter in Art and Poetry7 The Role of Peter in Early Christian Art: Images from the 4th to the 6th CenturyJutta Dresken-Weiland8 The Death of Peter: Anchoring an Image in the Context of Late Antique Representations of MartyrdomMarkus Löx9 Romulus and Peter: Remembering and Reconfiguring Rome’s Foundation in Late AntiquityMark Humphries10 Sedulius’ Peter: Intention and Authority in the Paschale carmenCarl P. E. Springerpart 4: Anchoring the Cult of Peter11 Peter without Paul: Aspects of the Primordial Role of Simon Peter in an Early Christian ContextAnnewies van den Hoek12 The Architectural Appropriation of the Apostle Peter by the Early Christian PopesKristina Friedrichs13 The Cult of Peter and the Development of Martyr Cult in Rome. The Origins of the Presentation of Peter and Paul as MartyrsAlan Thacker14 Anchoring the Rock: the Latin Liturgical Cult of Peter in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle AgesEls RoseGeneral BibliographyIndex locorumGeneral Index