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Erik Thuno

Image and Relic. Mediating the Sacred in Early Medieval Rome

L'Erma di Bretschneider 2002,

139.00 €

Medievale Libreria

(Pavia, Italy)

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ISBN
9788882652173
Author
Erik Thuno
Publishers
L'Erma di Bretschneider 2002
Keyword
Arte

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292 pages. 8 colour ills., 133 black and white ills. Paperback. cm 19 x 28,5. Collana: Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementa, 32. During his pontificate in Rome (817-824) Paschal I commissioned the production of an enamelled reliquary gold cross and two silver caskets to contain fragments of the True Cross. Based on his dissertation, Erik Thuno presents a detailed historical and art historical study of the Sancta Sanctorum objects commissioned and of their spiritual, physical, aesthetic and symbolic setting. These objects are also discussed within a wider examination of the spread of the cult of saints and the religious reform movement that saw the acquisition and veneration of relics sweeping across Carolingian Europe.