Christina Videbech
Position
Postdoctoral Fellow
Affiliation
Research
The aim of my research is to investigate the development of Rome as the city was Christianised between the 4th and 8th centuries. Concretely, I analyse the evidence of Christian use and adaptation of the Forum Romanum and the Imperial fora of Rome as evidenced in the written, archaeological, and epigraphical sources. My project The Fora of Rome and their Christian Graffiti is a collaboration between the University of Bergen, The University of Aarhus, and the Norwegian Institute in Rome. It is funded by the Research Council of Norway.
For more information on my earlier and current research:
Publications
Lecture
- Christina Videbech; Simon Malmberg (2018). Ancient Cities: A MOOC in progress. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2025). Se skriften på væggen. Graffiti, martyrer og den tidligste kristianisering af Roms fora. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2024). Presentation of the project "The Fora of Rome and their Christian Graffiti" (FROG). (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2013). Omvisninger i Nye Klæ’r – Museer og Museumsformidling. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2011). Forum i Senantikken – Krise eller ej?. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2025). "... Og de kastede hans lig for hundene". Martyrer, graffiti og skabelsen af Roms kristne fora.. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2025). Tro, magt og transformation: Kristne “spor” i Antikmuseets samling. (external link)
- Christina Videbech; Simon Malmberg (2018). Ancient Cities: En MOOC i Udvikling. (external link)
Conference lecture
- Christina Videbech (2013). Carpe Spolia – The Reuse of Public Sculpture in the Late Antique Collection. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2013). Carpe Spolia – Brug af Offentlige Skulpturer i Senromerske Privathuse. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2017). The Dissemination of Classical Archaeological Research to the General Public. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2017). Innovating Traditions: Social and Political Functions of the Basilica of St. Peter, 4th-6th centuries AD. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2016). Spoliated Memories or Memories Unspoilt: Spolia as Collective Memory in the Basilica of St. Peter in the 4th-6th centuries AD. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2018). Ny Vin på Gamle Flasker – Spolia i den Senantikke Peterskirke. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2020). Rør Mig Gerne, Thi Jeg Er af Denne Verden – Kristen Aktivitet og Forum Romanums Overlevelse fra 4.-6.årh. e.v.t.. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2016). The Forum of St. Peter? A Comparative Study of the Church of St. Peter and the Forum Romanum. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2023). Rome’s central fora as sites of pilgrimage and Christian identity. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2022). How the Dove Saved the Eagle’s Nest. Christian Activities and the Resilience of the Forum Romanum during the 4th to the 6th century. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2024). "And his body was eaten by dogs". Martyrs, travellers, and the construction of Rome's Christian fora. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2022). Den Mest Ydmyge Helligdom af Alle. Tidlig Kristen Graffiti på Forum Romanum. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2017). The Spoils of Eternity. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2012). Den Senantikke Privatsamling – Form, Funktion, Tradition?. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2016). Collective Memory at the Forum Romanum and St. Peter’s in the 4th-6th centuries: A comparative study. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2017). Fora as Sites of Collective Memory in Gothic and Post-Gothic Rome. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2025). Networks of Faith: Mapping Early Christian Interaction and Identity through the Christian Graffiti of Rome’s central fora (4th-8th centuries CE). (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2025). Ekkoer fra en hellig rejse? En komparativ analyse af kristen graffiti og pilgrimsadfærd på Kypern og i Rom. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2019). Debating the Concept of Collective Memory and its Application in the Study of Late Antique Rome. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2018). Maintaining the Memory of Eternal Rome: Forum Romanum and Forum Traiani in the 5th and 6th century AD. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2019). When the Cat’s Away: Fora as Sites of Collective Memory and Resilience in Gothic and Post-Gothic Rome. (external link)
Popular science article
Academic book chapter
- Stefan Feuser; Michael Blømer; Francis Brouns et al. (2021). Der MOOC 'Discovering Greek & Roman Cities': Lebenslanges Lernen im digitalen Zeitalter. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2024). Clean Death or Messy Resilience? The Forum Traiani and the Forum Romanum as Activity Spaces during the Sixth Century. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2020). The Spoils of Eternity: Spolia as Collective Memory in the Basilica of St. Peter during the 4th century AD. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2023). Christians, Memory, and Resilience in the Late Antique Forum Romanum. (external link)
- Michael Blømer; Francis Brouns; Alain Duplouy et al. (2021). Ancient Cities: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age. (external link)
Professional article
Academic article
- Stefan Feuser; Francis Brouns; Michael Blømer et al. (2022). Ancient Cities: Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2015). Private Collections of Sculpture in Late Antiquity – An Overview of the Form, Function, and Tradition. (external link)
- Christina Videbech (2025). Memory, Power, and Cooperation: Shaping Rome’s Suburbs through the Martyr Cult during the 4th to the 6th Centuries CE. (external link)