Experiencing Death and Resurrection : Late Antique Initiation as a Spiritual and Embodied Frontier - International Medieval Congress - University of Leeds 2020

FOLETTI, Ivan and Adrien PALLADINO. Experiencing Death and Resurrection : Late Antique Initiation as a Spiritual and Embodied Frontier - International Medieval Congress - University of Leeds 2020. 2020.

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Original name

Experiencing Death and Resurrection : Late Antique Initiation as a Spiritual and Embodied Frontier - International Medieval Congress - University of Leeds 2020

Authors

FOLETTI, Ivan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Adrien PALLADINO (250 France, belonging to the institution)

Edition

2020

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Uspořádání konference

Field of Study

60401 Arts, Art history

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/20:00116125

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Baptism; Baptisteries; Initiation; Liturgy; Sacred Space

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Abstract

V originále

Symbolic death and rebirth into the new faith are one of the essential components within the process of conversion, concretized for Christians in Late Antiquity during the extensive initiation and subsequentbaptismal ritual.The pre-baptismal preparation and catechesis, the baptismal rites themselves –performed the night before Easter Sunday in a context saturated with sensorial stimuli –as well as the post-baptismal exegesis are essential parts of thisintrinsically“liminal” rite of passage, which confirmed the inscription and sealing of the Christian.Nurturing/enhancingthis crossing of thelimesbetween old and new self, between the outside world and the community, and materializing ritual death and rebirth, wasthe role of material culture within and around the space of the baptistery. Besides textual references in sermons and mystagogical catecheses, the shape of the edifice and of the baptismal font, its decoration, images, but also possibly the objects used during the ritual enricheditand hintedat its transformative dimensions. The presentpanel would like to be a preliminary investigation precisely of this rich material culture of baptismal spaces and images, especially focusing onthedifferent degrees which materialize the notion of ritualized Christianization.The main topic of the panelwill be the dialogue between material/artistic culture, rituals,and the world of ideas.