This essay investigates the reception, ceremonial display and storage of a newly imported set of Byzantine relics in fourteenth-century Siena. Exploring how the potency of this foreign group of relics was both amplified and specified through visual and ritual framing in Siena, this chapter ultimately illuminates the ways in which 'praesentia' - the charisma and presence of the holy - was constructed and experienced in late medieval Europe
This dissertation situates the development of early medieval Rome as a sacred city in its 6th- to 9t...
The article examines the origins, history and significance of the bronze door - known as the 'Porta ...
Taking its point of departure in the finding of a bag of relics tucked away under the chin of a late...
Ever since the publication of Peter Brown’s seminal study of the cult of saints in late antiquity, t...
This essay explores the process of reinvention of a group of Byzantine relics and reliquaries as a ...
This article examines impression relics associated with Saints Peter and Paul: the apostolic knee pr...
This essay addresses issues of vision and the role of the material image in devotional practice at t...
This article explores the interactions between script, relics, and space, focusing on five inscribed...
The paper takes a systematic approach to the hitherto unpublished relic of St John the Baptist’s ...
Early Christian and medieval representations of the ritual of translatio documented the circulation ...
International audienceThis paper investigates the diffusion in Siena of a particular composite type ...
Celebrating the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious affection and a focus of civic pride, art...
My dissertation inserts the incorruptible body into the discussion of image devotion and relic vener...
International audienceThis contribution explores several aspects of the traduction of the theology o...
This project focuses on the use and significance of portable altars during the 11th-12th centuries i...
This dissertation situates the development of early medieval Rome as a sacred city in its 6th- to 9t...
The article examines the origins, history and significance of the bronze door - known as the 'Porta ...
Taking its point of departure in the finding of a bag of relics tucked away under the chin of a late...
Ever since the publication of Peter Brown’s seminal study of the cult of saints in late antiquity, t...
This essay explores the process of reinvention of a group of Byzantine relics and reliquaries as a ...
This article examines impression relics associated with Saints Peter and Paul: the apostolic knee pr...
This essay addresses issues of vision and the role of the material image in devotional practice at t...
This article explores the interactions between script, relics, and space, focusing on five inscribed...
The paper takes a systematic approach to the hitherto unpublished relic of St John the Baptist’s ...
Early Christian and medieval representations of the ritual of translatio documented the circulation ...
International audienceThis paper investigates the diffusion in Siena of a particular composite type ...
Celebrating the Virgin Mary as both an object of religious affection and a focus of civic pride, art...
My dissertation inserts the incorruptible body into the discussion of image devotion and relic vener...
International audienceThis contribution explores several aspects of the traduction of the theology o...
This project focuses on the use and significance of portable altars during the 11th-12th centuries i...
This dissertation situates the development of early medieval Rome as a sacred city in its 6th- to 9t...
The article examines the origins, history and significance of the bronze door - known as the 'Porta ...
Taking its point of departure in the finding of a bag of relics tucked away under the chin of a late...