Dancing with Sainte Foy : Movement and the Iconic Presence
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F19%3A00109574" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/19:00109574 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.CONVI.4.2019024" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.CONVI.4.2019024</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.CONVI.4.2019024" target="_blank" >10.1484/J.CONVI.4.2019024</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dancing with Sainte Foy : Movement and the Iconic Presence
Original language description
An exceptional work of early medieval art, the reliquary of Sainte Foy in Conques is the perfect object for understanding the notion of “iconic presence” around the year 1000. Bernard of Angers wrote his well-known Liber miraculorum to promote the cult of this particular saint. The book is one of many of its genre, but Bernard’s approach is unique in the way it describes the reception of Sainte Foy’s reliquary. Bernard tries to distinguish between relics and reliquary, but his text makes clear that, for the faithful, reality was different: the reliquary can take on the saint’s own holiness. A second fundamental element also emerges from the Liber miraculorum: it is movement that releases the saint’s full power – both the reliquary’s movement and that of the pilgrims who come to worship in Conques. This dual mobility reaches its climax during the nights of incubatio before the statue of Sainte Foy. Candlelight animates her entire person, and the light reflected in her eyes mirrors the motion of the faithful prostrating themselves before her. An object or an image thus becomes, more than ever, a presence.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Convivium
ISSN
2336-3452
e-ISSN
2336-808X
Volume of the periodical
6
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
BE - BELGIUM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
70-87
UT code for WoS article
000487673200004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85074082077