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.
Invisible, in full view: the Byzantine reliquaries of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena
Stefania Gerevini
2019
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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.
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