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En este texto se relata la crónica o, si se prefiere, el diario de los hechos que siguieron a la publicación del texto de fray Atanasio de Lobera, desde las primeras gestiones de 1598 para buscar una reliquia del santo hasta su... more
This study investigates the place of San Salvatore in the holy topography of Venetian Candia. By focusing on the largest convent in the Augustinian Province of the Holy Land, it contributes to a better understanding of a neglected subject... more
Reviewed in: BUKSZ--Budapesti Könyvszemle (Beatrix F. Romhányi), Catholic Historical Review (Katherine L. Jansen), Collectanea Franciscana (Aleksander Horowski), Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters (Veronika Lukas),... more
In John H. Arnold, The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014, 217-237.
Patron saint of Charles V of France (1364-1380) - Charlemagne
Pilgrimage art is visual culture intended to enhance or direct a pilgrim's experience at a particular sacred site. The artwork is quite varied, but it tends to fall into broad categories including reliquaries and shrines, architectural... more
Within the territories under the dominion of the Iberian monarchies, on both sides of the Atlantic, we seek to approach the cult rendered to Saint Iphigenia mainly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition to the... more
Księga Cudów z Prostyni zawiera ponad 100 opisów uzdrowień i otrzymania szczególnych łask. Szczegóły w artykule.
The focus of this article is the hagiographies and novenas to San Benito de Palermo that circulated in the territories of New Spain, most of which were produced locally in the 18th and 19th centuries. While these devotional books can be... more
This research analyzes from an iconographic perspective the mural representations of the three holy kings of Hungary – St. Stephen, St. Emeric, and St. Ladislas – which were depicted as a collective in the fourteenth and fifteenth... more
Étude dans le cadre d'un Master 2 Histoire soutenu à l'Université de Besançon en septembre 2016 consacré à l'iconographie de sainte Marguerite d'Antioche dans le quart nord-est de la France (XIIe - XVe).
The kings of East Anglia and Northumbria both died at the hands of the Great Heathen Army in the late 860s; one became a renowned martyr saint and one a villain. The latter, the Northumbrian Ælla, also became the antagonist in legends... more
This article will show the role of free women in the San Benito de Palermo sisterhood founded in 1646. This research paper explores the social role in such a corporation: the composition by gender, the organizational structure in the... more
At the center of piety there stands an image of the ideal life; the prescribed paths of virtue and spiritual cultivation are reflected in the radiance of a paradigmatic persona. And just as religions the world over have developed both... more
PETRÁČEK Tomáš. K některým aspektům interpretace příběhu biskupa Vojtěcha. In: Obrazy uctívané, obdivované a interpretované. Sborník k 60. Narozeninám profesora Jana Royta. Eds. Miroslav Šmied, František Záruba, Praha: LN 2015, s. 61-74.... more
The Bamiléké of Cameroon have long believed that after the corpses of their ancestors have rotted they can be exhumed and the skulls used to communicate with the spirits of the dead, as well as their godhead, to receive spiritual... more
Ch. 8. Celebrating New Saints in Rome and Across the Globe Pamela M. Jones, University of Massachusetts Boston Men and women recognized for exemplary holiness had been revered as saints since the early Christian era, but it was in the... more
Рассматриваются имена, которыми в календарном обрядовом фольклоре обозначается Масленица, воспринимаемая антропоморфно. Оба основных имени – Авдотья (Дуня) и Прасковея – восходят к календарным олицетворениям христианских святых: св.... more
San Cayetano de Thiene, presbítero, es patrono del pan y del trabajo. Este pequeño artículo de difusión cuenta las coordenadas de esta tradicional y profunda devoción y la presenta más actual en este tiempo de crisis. Algunos datos... more
Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 183 (juillet-septembre 2018), p Malgré la multiplication des études qui, au cours des dernières décennies, ont analysé le phénomène des reliques sous divers angles d'observation, un thème n'a... more
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 28:2 (Summer 2005): 36-38.
'Taking Place Architecture Religious Devotion in 17C Italy', in Renaissance and Baroque Architecture, ed. Alina Payne, 2017; part of The Companions to the History of Architecture, ed. Harry Mallgrave (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,... more
c) Le cronache di Santa Cecilia. Un monastero femminile a Roma in età moderna, (n. 5 of the book series “La memoria restituita – Fonti per la storia delle donne”), Rome: Viella 2009. The book includes the transcription of the Chronicles... more
The Passio of St Sebastian and his companions published by Migne in PG 116 (cols. 793-816) under the name of Symeon Metaphrastes is in reality an abridgment of the text found in Metaphrastic December meno¬logia. The source used by... more
This essay analyses literary and artistic works that are specifically tied to the experience or anticipation of plague by their content and purpose; that is, they contain direct reference to the disease, visually or verbally, and are... more
This paper analyzes some tales of the genre named furta sacra, written in Italy during the Middle Ages. After proposing a definition that can describe the specific nature of this genre within the broader framework of the category of... more
«L'Antonio eremita che vive solo nel deserto è lo stesso Antonio circondato di fedeli che invocano la guarigione, l'Antonio accompagnato da un maialetto dei dipinti trecenteschi è ancora l'Antonio dei santini, circondato dagli animali da... more
EN: The article following a solicitation by Gennaro Luongo, recently deceased, deals with the hagiographic dossier of Agnese. The author traces it between history and legend, literary documents and monumental evidences, iconography and... more
St. Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373) is one of the most celebrated female visionaries and authors of the Middle Ages and a central figure in the history of late-medieval religion. An aristocratic widow, Birgitta left her native country in... more
Études sur la sainteté et l'hagiographie-Studies on Sanctity and Hagiography HAGIOLOGIA Études sur la sainteté et l'hagiographie-Studies on Sanctity and Hagiography Des saints et des livres Christianisme fl amboyant et manuscrits... more
Michaela Binder - Sabine Ladstätter (Hrsg.), Die Heilige vom Hemmaberg: Cold Case einer Reliquie. Wien 2018, 155-158
Ce travail de recherche sur les martyrs et les chrétiens qui ont souffert de la persécution, pendant la période de Julien l’Apostat, à travers les textes historiographiques, hagiographiques et hymnographiques, a démontré que les sources... more