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Reliquaires --- Venezia
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Reliquaires --- Art metal-work, Medieval --- Reliquaries, Medieval
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From skeletons to strips of cloth to little pieces of dust, reliquaries can be found in many forms, and while sometimes they may seem grotesque on their surface, they are nonetheless invested with great spiritual and memorial value. In this book, Cynthia Hahn offers the first full survey in English of the societal value of reliquaries, showing how they commemorate religious and historical events and, more important, inspire awe, faith, and, for many, the miraculous.
Reliquaries --- Relics --- Reliquaires --- Reliques --- History. --- History --- Histoire --- Reliquaries - History --- Relics - History --- Art and Design. --- Christian art and symbolism. --- Reliquaires. --- Reliquaries. --- reliquaries. --- Aspect social. --- Social aspects.
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"This publication is the outcome of the conference Matter of Faith, held to accompany the British Museum's exhibition Treasures of Heaven, which brought together over thirty international experts in the field to present new research around the themes of medieval reliquaries and relic veneration. The result is an interdisciplinary study of a thought provoking and controversial topic featuring some of the period's most beautiful and celebrated objects."--Page 4 of cover. A landmark publication of essays resulting from the Treasures from Heaven conference at the British Museum, exploring the relationship between sacred matter and precious materials in the Middle Ages.
Relics --- Reliquaries, Medieval --- Christian art and symbolism --- Christian saints --- Reliques --- Reliquaires médiévaux --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Saints chrétiens --- Cult --- Culte --- History of Europe --- Christian special devotions --- anno 500-1499 --- Reliquaires médiévaux --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Saints chrétiens --- Reliquaries, Medieval. --- Reliquaires médiévaux. --- Symbolisme chrétien --- Congresses. --- Moyen âge. --- Cultes --- Moyen Age --- Reliquaires médiévaux. --- Symbolisme chrétien
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This study centers around Byzantine head relics and their receptacles. The first part discusses the so-called Reliquary of St. Anastasios the Persian, a silverwork in the shape of a centralized, domed church that was probably made in Antioch, but was later housed in Aachen Cathedral. The object is commonly considered a Byzantine vessel for the Eucharist that was later reworked to become a reliquary for the head of St. Anastasios in its new Western context. This study closely examines the life and cult of this particular saint in Byzantium and Aachen by considering the object's typology and contextualizing relations between Antioch and Constantinople in the late 10th century that have been largely overlooked, shedding light on the handling of sacred objects and confiscation measures under Basil II. The second part of the study concerns the veneration of Byzantine head relics in Constantinople and, more specifically, head relics that were transferred to the West in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. A discussion of Latin, post-1204 sources which affected medieval and modern perceptions of Byzantine relic veneration counters a bias against Byzantine sacred goldsmith work discernable in scholarship of the mid-20th century. Together with appendices on the anatomical nomenclature of the human skull, skull-chalices, and selected sacred objects made of precious metal related to relic veneration and the Eucharist, this study aims to reconstruct head reliquary types. It also seeks to refute the claim in art history that simple caskets that can easily be opened were commonly used as reliquaries of Byzantine body relics.
Reliquaries, Byzantine --- Saints --- Cult --- Anastasius, --- Anastasius Persa m. Betsaloae --- Reliquaires byzantins
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"This beautifully illustrated volume examines the cult of sacred relics in Baroque Malta in greater depth than ever before. It traces the origins of relic veneration and their arrival to Malta with the Knights of Order of St. John. The book discusses the importance of the reliquaries as an artistic expression of devotion to the holy remains, and the cult they instilled in the community that felt the need to reach to the divine in moments of great turbulence."--From backcover
Malte --- Reliquaires --- Reliquaries --- Relics --- Christian art and symbolism --- Art, Baroque --- Art objects, Baroque
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Christian art and symbolism --- Christian shrines --- Reliquaries --- Sanctuaires chrétiens --- Reliquaires
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This volume presents a corpus and discussion of seventy-one Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy containers from forty-nine sites across England dating to the seventh and possibly eighth centuries, and variously described as work boxes, needle cases, amulet containers or Christian reliquaries.
Reliquaries --- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon. --- Christian art and symbolism --- Reliquaires --- Civilisation anglo-saxonne. --- Great Britain --- Antiquities.
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History of civilization --- World history --- Relics --- Reliquaries. --- Christian saints --- Reliques --- Reliquaires --- Saints chrétiens --- History. --- Cult. --- Histoire --- Culte --- Cult --- Relics. --- Saints chrétiens --- Restes humains (archéologie)
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Images and relics were central tools in the process of devotional practice in medieval Europe. The reliquary tabernacles that emerged in the 1340s, in the area of Central Italy surrounding the city of Siena, combined images and relics, presented visibly together, within painted and decorated wooden frames. In these tabernacles the various media and materials worked together to create a powerful and captivating ensemble, usable in several contexts, both in procession and static, as the centre of focussed, prayerful attention. This book looks at Siena and Central Italy as environments of artistic invention, and at Sienese painters in particular as experts in experimentation whose ingenuity encouraged the development of this new form of devotional technology. It is the first full-length study to focus in depth on the materiality of these tabernacles, investigating the connotations and effects of the materials from which they were made. It examines especially the effect of bringing relics and images together, and considers how the impressions of variety and abundance created by the multiplication of materials give birth to meaning and encourage certain kinds of action or thought.
Christian special devotions --- Iconography --- iconography --- reliquaries --- tabernacles [liturgical containers] --- Medieval [European] --- anno 1300-1399 --- Italy --- Christian art and symbolism --- Reliquaries --- Tabernacles (Church furniture) --- Italie --- 14e siècle --- Reliquaires
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