Well into the seventh century, masons in Rome built bonded-masonry walls using materials and techniques directly descended from antiquity. But walls erected starting in the eighth century are very different and distinctively ‘medieval’. The late seventh / early eighth century therefore represents a moment of rapid transition or even rupture in the Roman building industry, when older ways of doing things ceased forever. Drawing on recently excavated structures on the Palatine and at San Paolo fuori le Mura that offer new insights into this crucial transitional period, I suggest that the break with centuries-old building traditions reflects a fundamental shift in mechanisms of patronage, and of control over the city's built environment. After a hiatus in the second half of the seventh century, when the Roman construction industry languished between a Byzantine administration in decline and a Church bureaucracy not yet empowered to supplant it, early eighth-century popes faced the challenge of creating anew the means and methods to build on a substantial scale. The newly excavated structures of the early eighth century offer an unexpected perspective on the growth of, and the growing pains experienced by, Rome's nascent papal government.

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中世纪早期罗马的政治、赞助和建筑技术的传播，c。650–750

直到七世纪，罗马的石匠使用直接来自古代的材料和技术建造了粘合砖石墙。但是从八世纪开始竖立起来的城墙是非常不同的，并且具有明显的“中世纪”特色。因此，七世纪末/八世纪初代表了罗马建筑业快速过渡甚至破裂的时刻，旧的做事方式永远停止了。借鉴最近在帕拉蒂尼 (Palatine) 和圣保罗富里勒穆拉 (San Paolo fuori le Mura) 出土的建筑，这些建筑为这个关键的过渡时期提供了新的见解，我认为与数百年历史的建筑传统的决裂反映了赞助机制和控制权的根本转变。城市的建成环境。在七世纪下半叶中断后，当罗马建筑业在衰落的拜占庭政府和尚未被授权取代它的教会官僚机构之间​​苦苦挣扎时，八世纪早期的教皇面临着创造新的手段和方法以大规模建设的挑战。八世纪初新出土的建筑为罗马新生的教皇政府的成长和经历的成长痛苦提供了一个意想不到的视角。