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The cult of saints, their relics, and devotion to their shrines is a phenomenon born in Late Antiquity that durably shaped medieval and modern practices across a broad geographical and cultural area spreading first throughout the Roman Empire and beyond. How was the creation of vessels for the holy remains of saints implemented during a culturally heterogenous period? Indeed, how could boxes of various shapes, sizes, and materials become containers to shelter sacred matter? What materials could be used in reliquaries’ making, and what images should adorn them? And how did reliquaries, with their geographical and social portability, contribute to the translocation of site-bound sanctity and the spread of saints’ and shrines’ networks across the Late Antique world?Tracing the medieval reliquary’s “pre-history”, this volume examines boxes bearing Christian images and patterns made between the fourth to the sixth century ce. It investigates how vessels adorned with images acquired meaning and power, exploring the dynamics of transformation that accompany both the creation of these objects and their long history of reuse, marginalization, and rediscovery.

264-052 --- 264-052 Verering van relikwieën --- Verering van relikwieën --- Reliquaires --- Reliquaries, Medieval. --- Relics --- Shrines --- Christian antiquities --- Art, Early Christian --- Christian art and symbolism --- Material culture --- Reliquaries, Medieval --- History --- History.

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Cet ouvrage rassemble dix contributions qui proposent des perspectives originales pour l’analyse conjointe des modes d’expression figurée de l'Occident médiéval. Menées tant par des « historiens de l’art » que par des « historiens », elles abordent la question de l’image-objet, des signes alphabétiques et iconiques, du lieu peint, de la liturgie et de la prédication. Documents d’archives, exégèse biblique, sermons et récits hagiographiques sont exploités de manière fine et exhaustive pour rendre compte, au plus près, du contexte d’exécution des œuvres, qu’elles soient inconnues ou célèbres. Ce sont alors les angles d’approches adoptés, comme l’anthropologie des images ou les études transgenre, mais aussi les relations complexes entre art, architecture et rites, qui enrichissent ici l’exploration et d’objets de culte – les lipsanothèques catalanes, les linges de l’autel ou les ex-voto – et de panneaux peints – comme la Flagellation du Christ de Piero della Francesca – et des cycles de peintures décorant la Tour Ferrande à Pernes-les-Fontaines, San Pellegrino à Bominaco, et cinq chapelles de la Ligurie et du Piémont.

Christian art --- Renaissance art history --- Cultural & intellectual history (c. 500-1500) --- Medieval art history --- Civilisation occidentale --- Signes et symboles. --- Image (philosophie) --- Art chrétien médiéval. --- Illustrations --- Gestes --- Art médiéval --- Symbolisme chrétien. --- Enluminure médiévale. --- Interprétation. --- Dans l'art. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Christian art and symbolism --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. --- Reliquaries, Medieval --- Church decoration and ornament --- Mural painting and decoration, Medieval --- Semiotics and art --- Art, Medieval --- Signs and symbols. --- Image (Philosophy) --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Themes, motives.