Experiencing Death and Resurrection. Late Antique Initiation as a Spiritual and Embodied Frontier. Some Introductory observations

FOLETTI, Ivan. Experiencing Death and Resurrection. Late Antique Initiation as a Spiritual and Embodied Frontier. Some Introductory observations. In Experiencing Death and Resurrection. Late Antique Initiation as a Spiritual and Embodied Frontier - International Medieval Congress - University of Leeds 2020. 2020.

Basic information

• Original name: Experiencing Death and Resurrection. Late Antique Initiation as a Spiritual and Embodied Frontier. Some Introductory observations
• Authors: FOLETTI, Ivan.
• Edition: Experiencing Death and Resurrection. Late Antique Initiation as a Spiritual and Embodied Frontier - International Medieval Congress - University of Leeds 2020, 2020.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Requested lectures
• Field of Study: 60400 6.4 Arts
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
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• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: Rites of passage; Bildanthropologie; Hierotopy; baptized into his death

Abstract

In the vast field of the borders, the limes, subject to which the entire Leeds conference is devoted this year, the question of Christian initiation finds its place in an absolutely natural way. Indeed, it was precisely the metaphor of the crossing of the border that, already in 1909, used Arnold Van Gennep to define the three fundamental stages for the rites of passage. The Van Gennep's metaphor was in my opinion brilliant because it related three fundamental elements to our discipline: space, time and the human body. Hans Belting, almost a century later, in his Bildanthropologie, would have defined this body as a medium, an instrument that basically acts as a mediator to the perception of space and time that culminate in a limit, frontier passage.