The Circulation of Blood, Clay and Ideas: The Distribution of Milanese Relics in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Circulation of Blood, Clay and Ideas: The Distribution of Milanese Relics in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries

Original language description

The present paper focuses on the origins and the practice of relic distribution in the West, a strategy strongly promoted and exercised by the bishop Ambrose of Milan (374-397) and his successors during the 5th century. The directions in which Milanese relics were distributed are outlined in the first section of this paper. In the following discussion, the paper argues that relic circulation was not only a factor that forged a strong link between ecclesiastical communities, but that it went hand in handwith the circulation of ideas. Moreover, the paper proposes that the transmission of iconographical and architectural models, along with certain decisions made in city planning, must be understood within the complex phenomenon of relic circulation. These assertions are based upon three case studies of churches in which the presence of Milanese relics has been supposed or attested: the Catacombs of San Severo in Naples, the Concilium Sanctorum church in Aosta, and the Baptistery of Alben

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Convivium

ISSN

2336-3452

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

1

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

64-75

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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