ISBN:
9789004444225
,
900444422X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Series Statement:
Mediterranean art histories - studies in visual cultures and artistic transfers from late antiquity to the modern period volume 3
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Zoitou, Sofia Staging holiness
Keywords:
Knights of Malta History To 1500
;
Knights of Malta
;
Hospitalers History To 1500
;
Religious articles History To 1500
;
Travelers' writings, European History and criticism
;
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages History
;
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
;
Hospitalers
;
Religious articles
;
Travelers' writings, European
;
HISTORY / General
;
Church history
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
History
;
Rhodes (Greece : Island) Church history
;
Greece ; Rhodes (Island)
;
Israel
Abstract:
The Hospitallers' institutions -- The Borgo and the area outside the walls -- Our Lady of Phileremos.
Abstract:
"In Staging Holiness. The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) Sofia Zoitou offers a study of the history of relic collections, devotional rituals and sites invested with special meaning in Rhodes, during a time when the island became one of the most frequented ports of call for ships carrying pilgrims from Venice to the Holy Land. Scrutinizing late medieval travel reports by pilgrims from all over Europe along with extant historical, archaeological, visual and material evidence, Sofia Zoitou traces the various forms of the Rhodian cultic sites' evolution and perception, ultimately considered as an overall artistic strategy for the staging of the sacred"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
